Love by Drowning — C.E. Poverman

In their last anguished moments together, Lee Anne, as an act of revenge, gives Val a picture of his brother, Davis, who just several months before has been killed in a bizarre accident. Lee Anne will tell Val nothing about the photo, but for seventeen years she has sent him fragmented and cryptic messages on unsigned postcards which seem to be the aftershocks of a terrible event. And for seventeen years Val has dared not reply. Now he is on his way back to see her, even as he fears it may cost him everything. This is a novel about a man and a woman obsessed with each other. It is about two people on a collision course.