Gabriel — Lisa Tuttle

"His name was Gabriel Archer, and he was my husband for eleven months. He died at twenty-three, a few days before my nineteenth birthday. Ten years later, on my twenty-ninth, he came back to haunt me."

Gabriel swore he would always love her. And then he died.

A decade later, when Dinah meets Ben, she is amazed to find Gabriel's penetrating eyes, his knowing smile , in a ten year old boy. When Ben says he loves her, Dinah is amused -- then frightened. Ben means what he says. He loves her -- exactly the way once Gabriel loved her.

Death could not banish Gabriel's love, or his spirit. He's come back, as he promised. And he still wants Dinah.