Second Glance

Jodi Picoult’s Second Glance weaves a layered story of love, loss, and the uncanny, beginning in contemporary Vermont. When an elderly landowner decides to sell a plot of property, the local Abenaki tribe rises in protest, claiming the land holds ancestral remains. Soon, strange and unexplainable phenomena sweep through the town of Comtosook, prompting the developer to hire a paranormal investigator to prove there’s nothing otherworldly at stake.

That investigator is Ross Wakeman—a man who has spent years courting death in an effort to reconnect with his fiancée, who died eight years earlier. He has driven off bridges, stood in the path of lightning, and walked straight into danger more times than he can count, and yet, death refuses to take him. Ross survives every attempt, condemned to a hollow existence fueled by longing for the woman he lost.

But in Comtosook, Ross encounters something entirely unexpected: Lia Beaumont, an enigmatic and fragile woman who seems just as caught between worlds as he is. Their meeting sets off a chain of revelations that unravel buried histories, explore the thin line between the living and the dead, and expose an old crime shaped by passion and fate.

Atmospheric, mesmerizing, and ultimately surprising, Second Glance is a story about the persistence of love—and the echoes it leaves behind.