Better Than Tomorrow

About the Book

Some wives can be the death of you. Don Holman learns this the hard way, when after thirty years of loving Susan White to no avail, she invites him out for drinks and marriage.

Despite the warnings of Woollcott, his alter ego, Don leaps rashly into married life with the woman he now knows will only be his for a short while: She has confessed to him that she is dying of leukemia, and only has a few months to live.

Once they are married, Susan divulges the rest of her plan. She wants—and expects—Don to die with her, after they experience every joy and adventure time allows them to share.

As Don realizes how isolated he has become from his friends and the life he had previously lived, he turns to the only one he still has access to: Woollcott. With wit, logic and his “special relationship” with Don, he strives heroically to keep Don from making the ultimate mistake of going along with Susan’s insistence on a double suicide.

It’s a daunting task. Susan’s arguments are convincing, and she manipulates Don with frightening ease. Each time Woollcott scores a logical point, Susan draws on her uncanny ability to make Don love her even more.  

A three-way battle of wits develops, with Don torn between his ongoing love for Susan and his desire to save himself…a desire avidly supported by his alter ego.

In turn gripping, graphic and poignant, "Better Than Tomorrow" is Dennis Havens at his most intense. And, as always, its pages are filled with more of the unique and colorful characters that have become a trademark of the Havens style.

About the Author

Dennis Havens, former Las Vegas musician, began writing mystery/suspense novels on breaks between shows. With over a dozen completed works, he is busy on a new book, set in the turbulent, high-stakes world of virtuoso conductors and New York symphonic music in the decade following World War II. Havens now makes his home in Oklahoma City.