When I Woke, My Family Had Been Replaced

After three years in a coma from a car accident, Ethan Wilson wakes to the voice of his wife Claire and their son. But the woman and boy standing at his hospital bed are strangers to him, and when he shouts for Claire, the woman insists she is his wife. Dr. Thompson diagnoses frontal lobe damage and prosopagnosia, and every scan and test confirms his brain is impaired. The woman recites intimate memories only Claire could know, cooks his favorite meals, and cares for him daily, until he nearly believes he is the one who is broken. Then she peels an apple and eats it without hesitation, though the real Claire is severely allergic to apples. Certain now that these strangers are not his family, Ethan must decide whom to trust while everyone around him insists he is the one who is ill.