Jake Sanders is a political science professor at a small
undergraduate college on the East Coast. As SIX YEARS
opens, he is watching the love of his life, Natalie, get
married to another man, Todd Sanderson. At the end of the
wedding, Natalie extracts a promise from Jake that he will
never contact her - no phone calls, no visits, no emails,
nothing. He makes the promise, and he manages to keep it
for six long years.
In the middle of office hours six years after Natalie's
wedding, Jake notices an alumni obituary posted to the
college's homepage; Todd Sanderson has passed away. Jake
drops everything and flies to South Carolina to attend the
funeral in hopes of seeing Natalie. But when he gets there,
he realizes that Natalie isn't at the funeral. He asks
around and Todd's wife is actually a woman named Delia.
Unfortunately, Jake must fly back home immediately, but
mystery of who Todd is nags at him.
Jake systematically begins to track down Natalie. He
contacts her sister, he goes to the wedding chapel, he goes
to the place they met, and a few places they used to hang
out when they dated. Frustratingly, Jake encounters
obstacles at every turn. Natalie's sister doesn't
acknowledge him, the chapel denies knowledge of the wedding
ever happening, and people deny the existence of the retreat
where they met. Then Jake gets an email seemingly from
Natalie reminding him that he made a promise.
This convinces Jake that something he did in his search got
back to Natalie, and he redoubles his efforts to find her.
Unfortunately, this also puts his life in danger. Soon,
dangerous men begin popping up in his life following him,
threatening him, and threatening Natalie. How far is Jake
willing to go to discover the truth about a woman he loved
six years ago and may never have really known at all?
SIX YEARS captivated me from the very beginning and it never
let go. This book is a definite page-turner, with enough
intrigue to keep even an experienced thriller reader
guessing. I was sure I knew what was going on, but I was
proven wrong at every turn -- something I should have known
when dealing with someone as adept at writing thrillers as
Harlan Coben.
In Six Years, a masterpiece of modern suspense,
Harlan Coben explores the depth and passion of lost love…and
the secrets and lies at its heart.
Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie,
the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding
a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a
college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave
Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life
with her new husband, Todd.
But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his
feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he
can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the
glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not
Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she’s been married
to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact
everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his
life—a time he has never gotten over—is turned completely
inside out.
As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories
of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple
either can’t be found, or don’t remember Jake. No one has
seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke
his heart, who lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk
as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based
on a carefully constructed fiction.
Harlan Coben once again delivers a shocking page-turner that
deftly explores the power of past love, and the secrets and
lies that such love can hide.
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