Jake Sanders has been living a quiet and lonely life as a
college professor for the past six years after the great
love of his life suddenly married another man. Natalie
invited him to the wedding; then asked him to please leave
her alone and never try to contact her again. Jake has
respected her wishes all these years, until the day he sees
an obituary for her husband in the newspaper. Still deeply
in love with her, he cannot resist going to the funeral for
a glimpse of Natalie; where he is met with a shocking
discovery. The widow of Todd Sanderson is another woman, not
Natalie.
So begins Jake's odyssey to find out what happened to
Natalie, his Natalie. What he finds is lies, deception, and
secrets. Every treasured memory of Natalie begins to
unravel under the scrutiny of his search for the truth. No
one knows where Natalie is or what happened to her after her
wedding; and many people refuse to acknowledge that they
even knew him or Natalie. Jake is determined to find her,
however; and refuses to take 'no' for an answer. As he
begins to dig deeper and collect pieces to the puzzle, he
finds his life is in danger. Not only are there people who
don't want him to find Natalie; there are players in the
game who want to find her for their own reasons, and who are
fully prepared to eliminate anyone in their way.
SIX YEARS is told entirely from Jake's point of view,
allowing the reader to get into his mind and know what he is
thinking and feeling. The protagonist is an everyman, one
who never realizes the lies and deceptions bubbling just
beneath the surface of his life, until something happens
that blows his world apart. Nothing in this story or in
Jake's life is as it seems; and every time Jake uncovers a
new secret, another key event happens that propels the story
in yet another direction. The plot line is wildly
imaginative, and the storyline complex and intriguing; with
layer upon layer of mystery, secrets, intrigue, and
excitement. As soon as readers begin to feel the least
bit complacent about where the story is going, Coben throws
in a wrench that twists the plot around yet again.
Harlan Coben is at the top of his game with this riveting,
suspenseful novel; which is quite possibly the best and most
fascinating novel he's ever written. He is the absolute
master of the psychological mind games, and that talent is
played out here in spades. As with his last few novels, SIX
YEARS
is a domestic thriller, and a standalone read.
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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