Summary

In Chapter One, the protagonist, Mark, and his girlfriend, Alison, woke up to four inches of snow and went for a walk. They stopped at a coffee shop. When Alison went to the bathroom, Mark noticed a strange woman outside staring at him. He waved at her and she ran off, frightened. Mark remembered the dream he had when he woke up that morning. It was a nightmare about his six-year-old son, Brendan, who had died seven years ago, and Mark’s ex-wife Chloe, who had divorced him a year after their son’s death. Alison had woken him up from the dream and told him it was snowing and insisted that they go out and play. Mark had almost proposed to her on their walk, but something had stopped him. At the coffee shop, he almost proposed again, but then Alison had...