Saving Candies for a Ghost

From the back cover

When David's company nearly collapsed, three million dollars vanished from his business account, and his wife Emily disappeared with it. It took him two years to rebuild, and he never forgave her. What he does not know is that the money covered the fraudulent books his older brother had cooked up, and that his brother pushed Emily over the railing of the Monroe Bridge to keep the truth buried.

Three years after her death, Emily's mother, whose Alzheimer's has left her mind frozen in that same year, is brought to David's office building. She carries chicken soup and a candy she has never once forgotten, waiting by his door for a daughter who will not come. David takes her in as bait, certain Emily is hiding in shame.

Then a cracked phone rings with Emily's own voice, reminding her mother to take her medicine. Twenty alarms a day, set to repeat for decades, still watch over a woman whose daughter is only a wisp of cold air beside her.