Six Years

Jake Fisher is a college professor who has spent six years trying to get over the loss of Natalie. She was the love of his life, and he watched her marry another man, Todd. Jake agreed to stay out of her life, and he has kept that promise, burying himself in his work while dreams of the couple's life together keep him company at night.

Then he sees Todd's obituary. Unable to stay away, Jake goes to the funeral hoping to catch a glimpse of Natalie. The widow standing at the graveside is a stranger. She is not the woman he remembers.

Jake begins looking for answers, and the past he has kept so carefully begins to come apart. Friends who once knew the couple can't be tracked down, or claim not to remember him at all. No one he asks has seen Natalie in years. The more he digs, the more dangerous his search becomes, and he starts to find out what secrets and lies can hide behind love.

Harlan Coben, creator of the Netflix series The Stranger, builds this suspense novel around the pull of obsession and the question of how well we ever know the people we love.