Would you give up drinking and sex? Well, I guess if you had a heart attack and only given months to live, you probably would.

In THE TELL-TALE HEART, this is Patrick's life. He loved to drink and, of course, to have sex. But then comes the massive heart attack. The doctors tell him he only has a few months left unless by some miracle a transplant becomes available. Due to a terrible motorcycle accident, Patrick gets his miracle.

While his body is not rejecting the heart, Patrick's mind can't over come this. He wonders about the young boy who lost his life. Patrick does everything he can to find out the name of this boy. He feels if he can find out about the boy's life, he may be able to over come this feeling he has.

Jill Dawson's books are a little hard to finish. It took me quite a while to finish this book. To me there was too much back and forth between Patrick's old life and what he is going though now. One minute you are in the hospital room, and in the next, Patrick is thinking about an old girlfriend. I keep losing track of who was who.

After reading comments by other people, there seems to be a lot of people who enjoyed this book. Unfortunately, I was not one of them. I may go back some time and try to read this book again. Maybe the second time, I will enjoy it a bit more.