Alternate Lives — Rebecca A. Engel

When Valerie Urniak Cardonza suffers a head injury that leaves her first in a coma, then with amnesia, she's not certain which will come back first â€" her memory or the person who wants her dead.

Valerie has no memory of her real life. All she knows of her life is what she remembers from the dreams she had while in a coma. None of those dreams were what her life was actually like. What she's learning of her past while she waits for her memory to return is anything but favorable. What kind of a woman was she, with a teenage pregnancy and multiple marriages?

Valerie has to reconcile her coma-dream lives with her real life while trying to determine who hated her enough to try to kill her.

ALTERNATE LIVES is Book 8 in the Valerie Urniak Mystery series. It is set in Chicago in 2004.

Other books in the Valerie Urniak Mystery series are:

PERMANENT DAMAGE, Book 1
CONTRIVE TO KILL, Book 2
VARIANTS OF DÉJÀ VU, Book 3
A RING OF TRUTH, Book 4
TOO SOON, Book 5
DANGEROUS UNDERCURRENTS, Book 6
ZUGZWANG, Book 7

Book 9, with a working title of PARTINGS, will be released in 2017.