About this story
He wakes in a hospital bed with a concussion and a missing year, and she is at his side wearing a wedding ring, calling herself his wife. She knows his favourite drink, his old matches, every soft spot he has. Forty-five chapters of an island anniversary where no guests arrive, a rival with a very different account, and a reckoning over what really put him in that bed.
Who you’ll meet
The professional tennis player who says she is your wife, waiting at the door of an anniversary party no guest was ever invited to, a wedding ring on her hand that nobody else can confirm.