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<b>IS HOPE ITSELF THE ONLY ANSWER?</b><br><br>The renowned author of the <i>Ring</i> novels unravels a story of lovers wrestling with the darkness within themselves&mdash;be it selfishness, lust, or despair&mdash;in a deeply introspective romantic mystery that will tug at your mind as well as your heart.<br>&#160;<br>A seemingly amnesiac woman sits mutely before her psychiatrist. Unable, or perhaps unwilling, to speak, the only time she shows any hint of emotion is when she hums a song&mdash;and the song becomes the first clue.<br>&#160;<br>Pregnant but abandoned by her lover, who boarded a tuna boat to brave turbulent waters far from home, she&rsquo;d waded into the pitch-black waves one evening to drown herself...because when you feel like you&rsquo;re stranded at sea all by yourself in the dead of the night, those waves call for you, lulling you to sink into the silence beneath.<br>&#160;<br>What we go on to discover is a cursed fate, a ruthless reality, and the dark humor of a world ruled by the indifferent forces of chance. They say you never know what the future holds, but what if you&rsquo;re told that you only have precisely a fifty-fifty chance of attaining happiness?