{"product_id":"looking-through-the-rearview-mirror-ricky-sano-9798188750824","title":"Looking Through the Rearview Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if the hardest person to convince that you are gone... is yourself?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan Sullivan has built a life meant to be admired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a celebrated architect with a magnificent estate, an exotic collection of birds, glamorous friends, and a longtime partner who once knew every hidden part of him. From the outside, Ryan's world appears flawless. Behind the closed doors, his relationship with Thomas is quietly collapsing, his medication has become a dangerous escape, and the man everyone envies is beginning to disappear inside his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Ryan finds Oberon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rare blue macaw is waiting for him at the end of a mysterious late-night advertisement. Against Thomas's desperate warnings, Ryan drives into a violent storm to bring the bird home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the return journey, one final telephone conversation pulls Ryan and Thomas back toward the love they thought they had lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the road vanishes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRyan awakens convinced he survived the accident. He returns home, resumes his work, attends the parties of his two best friends, and moves through the world with the same sharp humor and commanding presence he has always possessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut people are beginning to look through him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime moves forward without him. Thomas grows older. New friends forget his face. Mirrors reveal things Ryan refuses to see. And Oberon keeps repeating the one word Ryan cannot accept: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGone.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom rain-darkened roads to pulsing dance floors, from the coast of Spain to a final sunset in Ibiza, \u003ci\u003eLooking Through the Rearview Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting and deeply emotional supernatural thriller about love, grief, denial, and the terrible distance between surviving and letting go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome souls are lost because no one remembers them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOthers remain lost because they cannot stop looking back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ricky Sano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798188750824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Ricky Sano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665961390335,"sku":"9798188750824","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/looking-through-the-rearview-mirror-ricky-sano-9798188750824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}