Everything we left behind

Everything we left behind

by Kerry Lonsdale

Here is the second one in a trilogy, so if you haven't read the first, Everything we Keep, you will want to go read that one first or you will be confused of what's going on.

In the first book, James disappears two months before his wedding.  On the day of what was supposed to be his wedding, his fiance is at his funeral as they assume he has died at sea.  Eventually they find him in Mexico living as Carlos.  He doesn't remember being James, that memory is gone, and he is living a new life.  He even fell in love with someone else, but she dies giving birth to their child.

In this book, Jame's memory comes back and he goes back to California.  His finance has since married someone else and has a daughter.  The chapters rotate between him being Carlos, right after his fiance had found him in Mexico and she went back to California and him waking back up as James 5 1/2 years later.

How scary for the children when Jame's memory comes back and he has no idea who they are.  They are young, have already lost their mother, and now the father that they love suddenly no longer remembers them.

And then Carlos, now realizing that at any moment his memory of being James might return and his whole life of Carlos will disappear.  He has made a good life in Mexico, loves his children, and genuinely loved his wife and misses her.  If his memory disappears, those memories will disappear.

Another interesting series, that has a nice depth of characters, even the on person who is two distinct characters.