Clare Marie Speltz

Good You Were Here Clare Marie Speltz

Evan feels like he should be dead. He has survivor's guilt from a terrible accident over a decade ago. He dwells in the past, thinking of all the things he would take back if only he could. But then he meets Angela. Angela is dying. Her life consists of managing her congestive heart failure symptoms and preparing for death. But then she meets Evan, a locksmith who can open anything except his heart. They get to know each other, and Angela begins to believe there is time to live before she dies. Lazlo wants to kill someone. He can't think of any way to get back at death for taking his wife from him. But then he reconnects with Angela, the dying girl across the street from him, and he has to decide if he will fight off the shadows in his life, or let them consume him, with violent consequences. As the year runs down, the three of them must come to grips with death in their own ways and struggle to continue living in the moments that have been given to them.