To all who have met them, Will and Sandy are the golden couple, and their lives in a small midwestern town couldn't be better. Sandy is a beautiful, wealthy, and caring lawyer who works with the underprivileged. Will is a laid-back newspaper reporter, madly in love with his wife. But when a terrible automobile crash leaves Sandy in a coma, Will is devastated. Or is he? Suddenly, nothing is as it seems. In reality, the couple wasn't nearly as happy as everyone believed. They'd recently patched up their marriage after Sandy's brief infidelity. Then, as Will is struggling to come to terms with Sandy's condition, the body of her ex-lover is found. He'd been murdered. Events begin to spin out of control, and all eyes are on Will. Is he involved? Or are these tragic events just coincidence? To their shock, the people who think they know the facts are about to discover the truth. The Waking is a twisty debut thriller in which an apparent accident unleashes a chain of catastrophic events.