Before and Again

by Doris Mortman

Now she explores some of the most compelling ideas in dream research, combined with a page-turning plot that will keep you guessing until the last page.

Callie Jamieson has a mysterious link to the past-she has the same disturbing dreams her mother had, ones that drove her mother eventually to suicide. But Callie is determined not to let them destroy her life, too. They're under control until the death of her ex-lover sends Callie on a quest to find out the truth. Her search intensifies her dreams, and leads her to an old-money New York family with a revered and respected name, to secrets that someone will kill to protect, and to a passionate love she never expected. Before and Again explores the fascinating issues of memory's long reach...and the hold the past can have on the present.

Genres: Fiction, Romance

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

I was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico—before it was chic. My family moved to the East when I was three. I grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and went to Skidmore College when it was still an all girl's school.

Being a lifelong wordsmith led me to such jobs as writing copy at ad agencies and doing sales promotions at Mademoiselle magazine. My first book, Circles, was published in 1984 as a paperback original and stayed on The New York Times Bestseller List for three months. Since then, I've published First Born, Rightfully Mine, The Wild Rose, True Colors, The Lucky Ones, Out of Nowhere, Before and Again, Shades of Red, and recently The Nest, the first in a series: Country Club Crimes. With both the hard and soft cover publications, I've resided on Bestseller Lists many times and have nearly twenty million books in print worldwide, with translations in fourteen languages.

I've been married for thirty-one years to a classic Type A personality who works hard, plays hard, sleeps fast, thinks deeply, and believes that commuting is a form of vehicular combat. I have two grown children, a daughter-in-law and two gorgeous grand girls!

My hobbies include golf, bridge and raising funds for breast cancer research.

Reviews

[Natalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in 3 days, it was impossible to put down. It has a good element of mystery mixed with a little romance, the prologue is a necessity to best understand this book. It talks about a medical phenomenon that we can dream about things that happened to our ancestors and how those dreams or rather relived nightmares can affect someone.

[Jenna Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really interesting premise. It started slow and took some time for me to get into it, but I ended up really enjoying trying to figure it all out!

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok… got long at times… I did skip ahead a bit.. I liked the ending

[Elia L · Rating 4 out of 5]

J'ai passé dans l'ensemble un bon moment de lecture. L'intrigue est bien menée, même si j'ai eu du mal à adhérer à la résolution des visions de Callie. Les personnages sont intéressants et bien creusés.
Il m'a toutefois manqué un petit quelque chose pour me faire passer du sympathique moment de lecture au coup de coeur.

[Eva · Rating 4 out of 5]

2014:
this book was interesting, i'd read it before ages a go but couldn't remember how it went down.
one thing isn't really clear to me:

if Wilty's gg grandfather is E.W., we can assume that the generations go like this:
E.W. = gg grandf.
his son (was it Hunt?) = g grandf.
his son (was his name mentioned? he was married to Eppie = grandf.
Hunt II = father
Wilty = son

in that case, by Callie it probably went like this:

Liberty
Faith
her grandmother
Mara
Callie.

if they'd told the grandmother about mara's visions, wouldn't she have said: "gee, my mother's name was Faith"? wouldn't she have known her mother's history/background? they make it sound like it happened wayyyyy before, many generations ago, when really it wasn't.

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

Someone gave me a box of paperback books(most of the authors I have never read before)...I just reached in and grabbed 1 to start reading...it was awesome and I am using this same method for the whole box and then donating them to programme I am involved in...my shelf for these books is the paperback project...(if anyone wanted to see the title and authors)...I love the detail in this book and the suspense.

[Konae]

Umm Im still in the process of reading it!

[Tisha · Rating 2 out of 5]

not a favorite...deals with memories and nightmares which might actually beling to your ancestors...

[Jody · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was interesting enough to keep my mind on track! (hard thing for me to do) But a very interesting story with lots of twists!

[Christopher Trottier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with a compelling storyline, a teasing scenery and a suspenceful grab that has the reader hooked page from page.

[Denise · Rating 1 out of 5]

Prologue was OK; It went downhill from there on.

[Linel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am wordless when it comes to review this book because it is simply excellent. I loved it from the beginning. It is intense in all the sense of the word. I recommend it to anyone.

[Ina]

Kept my interest. Predicted before ending.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Woman sees "gray people" from the past who are trying to tell her secrets from the past.

[Lorraine]

Don't want to read.