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Guest dies after being struck by lightning during a violent summer storm. Heart stops and body shuts down by completely. Dead. No pulse. No breathing. No heartbeat. Everyone moves on. Her parents, her friends and coworkers. Except her husband, Jaxson Hyde. He can’t accept it— he won’t. For months, he becomes obsessed with bringing her back. He abandons everything—friends, family, morality, his own sanity. He studies medicine, electricity, ancient texts, experimental sciences, anything that whispers the possibility of defeating death. People begin calling him mad… Mad Jax. Maybe they’re right. He didn’t care though, his only concern was Guest, his beloved wife. He pumped her full of energy and medicines, herbal remedies and chemicals and his own blood even, regardless of the flat lines. Then one stormy night, almost a whole year later, lightning strikes again… And she wakes up. And eventually it’s obvious— clearly, she’s changed…. Into something beautifully unhinged. Something… dreadful came back with Guest. You look like yourself, given the circumstances. You sound like you. You remember him, most importantly. But strange things happen around you. Animals flee. Mirrors crack. Spiders even abandon their webs. Mushroom appears randomly inside the manor. Flowers die when you touches them. Grass turns yellow where you walk on it barefoot. And it storms every night at the same time. Lightning seems to follow you wherever you go. As if death itself is trying to reclaim what was stolen.