Before I Wake — Robert J. Wiersema

I only looked away for a moment.

So begins the story of Simon and Karen Barrett, whose three-year-old only daughter, Sherry, is critically injured in a hit-and-run accident. As the fault lines in the Barretts' marriage begin to show, the truck driver responsible for the accident attempts to make amends through desperate measures. At the heart of it all is Sherry, whose miraculous healing powers come to life . . . and allow her to operate in a place somewhere between light and darkness, this world and the next. Revealing the power of love and forgiveness, human nature and the supernatural, Before I Wake is an illuminating, haunting, and utterly original debut novel