Chapter 1 Summary

"The Other Side of Dark" by Jean Lowery Nixon is the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who wakes from a four-year-long coma and must face the changes that have occurred in her life, including the fact that her mother was murdered by the same man who shot and put Stacy in a coma. When Stacy McAdams wakes from her coma after four years to learn that she is the only one who can identify her mother's murderer if she can only recall his face, she struggles to regain her memory of that day before the killer finds her. "The Other Side of Dark" is an intriguing, suspenseful novel that deals with issues of growing up at once and who can be trusted, set in a narrative filled with murder and mystery.

The dream is too long, and when Stacy calls out for her...