The Bainbridge Public Library will host Port Townsend author Julie Christine Johnson to discuss her new book “In Another Life” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 15.

In the novel, historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband.

But instead of finding solace in the region’s quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life — and about her husband’s death.

As Raoul reveals the story of his past to Lia, she becomes entangled in the echoes of an ancient murder, resulting in a haunting and suspenseful journey that reminds Lia that the dead may not be as far from us as we think.

Johnson’s short stories and essays have appeared in several journals, including Emerge Literary Journals; Mud Season Review; Cirque: A Literary Journal of the North Pacific Rim; Cobalt, and the anthologies “Stories for Sendai,” “Up, Do: Flash Fiction by Women Writers” and “Three Minus One: Stories of Love and Loss.”

She holds undergraduate degrees in French and Psychology and a Master’s in International Affairs. A runner, hiker and wine geek, she makes her home on the Olympic Peninsula with her husband.