The Witness

 

(read and reviewed pre-blog in 2003)

Wonderful book! I've always enjoyed Sandra Brown, but I believe this is my favorite of hers so far. 

The story starts out with Kendall Deaton and her infant son surviving a car wreck. The driver has amnesia, and the front seat passenger dies. Kendall decides to use the driver's amnesia to her advantage. At this point, we, of course, have no idea why or what that means. She tells the doctors he's her husband, but then tries to sneak out of the hospital late one night and leave him there, but he catches her and insists on leaving with her. After that, the story goes back and forth between the present, wherein Kendall is obviously running from something or someone, and the past, where we see her meet and marry her husband. The present story is mysterious, with the author giving us hints about stuff, and then as the past story unfolds, different incidents occur which then make you understand what was going on in the present story. But throughout the majority of the book, you are constantly wondering who the amnesiac really is. Is he really her husband, or not? And if not, who is he, and is he a bad guy or a good guy? And occasionally you find yourself wondering if Kendall is in fact a "bad guy" herself. I thought I figured out who the amnesiac was towards the end, but I wasn't positive until the author admitted it to me.