The Bride He Chose This Time Was Not Her

The hen came from Lydia Song's closest friend, sent up from the countryside while Lydia's daughter was in a hospital bed after a traffic accident. Soup was meant to help the girl recover. Twenty years had passed without Lydia killing anything, and she killed the bird herself in the kitchen. Her daughter was dead by the end of the day. Lydia did not stay long in the life that came after. She woke on the morning of that same day, the hen alive again, her daughter still on the ward, and the hours ahead of her already known. The second time she moves carefully. She goes back over the accident, the friend who sent the hen, and the small coincidences that had looked like nothing, and what she turns up runs through both of her lives and involves people she had never had reason to doubt.