The Day She Wasn’t Dead

Leah Arden makes inventories of what people leave behind. She knows how to label a coat, record a missing photograph and leave a difficult question unanswered.

Then a case among her father’s belongings sends her into the last day of a dead woman’s life.

She has twenty-four hours. When she returns, no time has passed, but the world has changed. Saving one person has not put everything right. As Leah follows a trail of old payments, borrowed tools and family silences, she discovers that someone else knows how the cases work. He has already used his chances. Now he wants hers.

Each journey must reach further back. Each choice leaves Leah remembering a life that other people have never lived. And the truth she is trying to uncover leads towards a day her own family did not survive intact.

The Day She Wasn’t Dead is a time-travel mystery about grief, responsibility and the difference between bringing someone back and letting them live.