A wife who doesn't realize what she has until she might lose it. Dr. Deryck Brand, a distinguished mind specialist, has built a comfortable life with his wife Flower. But comfort can calcify into complacency. When Deryck prepares for an important consultation, he needs his wife beside him - not for her skills or conversation, but simply for her presence. Flower, caught in the web of home and obligation, chooses duty over companionship. Then tragedy strikes. In an instant, everything Deryck has ever wanted hangs in the balance, and Flower is forced to confront what she has been too busy to see: that she has been neglecting the very thing that matters most. This is a novel about the blindness of routine, the weight of unexpressed love, and the terrible clarity that comes when everything hangs by a thread. It asks the question every married person fears: will I wake up too late?
