To prepare for this novel, I read a few books on the subject of transplants, watched two educational films during which I passed out repeatedly at the sight of blood, and spoke with a few medical specialists in the field-largely to ascertain how they manage not to pass out in surgery every time they expose the pulsing internal organs of a patient. This would be a lie, however, and people without a sense of humor would write by the hundreds to accuse me of taking a perfectly good heart needed by some patient who really needed it. I would like to reveal that, in the interest of accuracy and the accumulation of vivid detail, and because I bring total commitment to my writing, I underwent a heart transplant myself, even though I didn't need one. I have been asked by the secret masters of Amazon how much research into transplant surgery I did before writing Your Heart Belongs to Me. Amazon Exclusive Essay: Dean Koontz on Writing Your Heart Belongs to Me She’s the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan’s own chest.Īnd she’s come to take it back. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear-a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha.

One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Ryan is about to lose it all.his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant it’s his only hope, and it’s dwindling fast. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all.Īt thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket-until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche-and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are.

Your heart belongs to me by dean koontz