The Dead Don't Dance

Charles Martin

May 2006 · Sold by Thomas Nelson

About this ebook

The Dead Don't Dance is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story—a tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope.

In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles are a young couple in love, preparing eagerly for the birth of their first son. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room, and their child is delivered stillborn. When Maggie hemorrhages and slips into a coma, Dylan slips into what can only be described as a walking coma, holding vigil at his beloved wife’s bedside.

Usually tough and self-reliant, an outdoorsman and a farmer, Dylan finds that everything he has known is suddenly thrown into doubt. Refusing to give up on Maggie’s recovery, a devastated Dylan takes a job as an English professor in order to pay for Maggie’s medical bills. Dylan connects with his students despite himself and offers hope to others amid his own disappointment and grief. As Dylan waits for some change in Maggie's condition, he reflects on his life and hers.

Through friends and grace-filled moments of insight, Dylan slowly begins to heal, but it will take a second tragedy—and an anxious period of wrestling with God—to truly awaken him from his stupor and open him up to a new life.

• New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin’s debut novel
• Full-length emotive Southern fiction
• Book 1 of the Awakening Series
  • Book 2: Maggie

Ratings and reviews

Second book I have read by Charles Martin. A very good writer. It brought me to actually a sob at least 3 times, and that never happens to me. It really shows the truth about the trials and tribulations in this world. And how God is with us every step of the way, helping us to get through. It also shows the beauty of God's Grace and the joy that we all feel when we clearly realize that God has not abandoned us.

love the work from Charles Martin. so wonderful to read a very good, hard to put down book written without tons of curse words and other smut. Thank you also for sharing your faith. I cannot adequately express my love for the books written by Charles Martin.

no one can weave a story like this man. I consume every word and wait for the next book,just wonderful!

About the author

Charles Martin is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author. He and his wife, Christy, live in Jacksonville, FL. Learn more at charlesmartinbooks.com; Instagram: @storiedcareer; X: @storiedcareer; Facebook: @Author.Charles.Martin