Mirror Image by Sandra Brown

Mirror Image by Sandra Brown is an old book (1990) with an interesting premise.  What if a woman survives a mass catastrophe and awakens in the hospital ICU with a new identity.  This happens to Avery Daniels when she sustains severe facial fractures, a concussion, burns, and lung damage from smoke inhalation during an airplane crash.  Doctors and family members mistake her for the dead and unrecognizable mother of a child that Avery carries from the wreckage.  Before she can say a word, plastic surgeons “restore” her face to resemble the other woman.  She learns of a plot to kill her new “husband,” who is a charismatic candidate for the United States Senate.  She realizes that she must embrace her new circumstances to save the life of this man who now thinks she is his wife.   Tate Rutledge was trapped into a disastrous marriage.  His wife cheated on him, aborted his baby, and made his life miserable.  He plans on demanding a divorce after the election, but she seems different after the accident, and he endeavors to discover why.