Let's start, as the book (after the Prologue) does, with Millie.
When we first meet Millie in the afterlife, she's quiet, timid, content with simple domestic comforts. We don't learn many specifics about her life, but she lived in a near-constant state of instability and fear. The afterlife has provided her with the relief of safety and peace, and she's deeply grateful.
Next, Rosie, still very much among the living. She's a professional medium calling herself Madame Rebecca, relying on costuming and a range of tricks to delude her clients into thinking she's in touch with The Beyond. She rarely allows herself to remember that as a teenager, she actually heard faint, tantalizing echoes of mysterious voices, and hoped they would grow louder and reveal their origins.
She has a surprise coming.
And finally (for today), there's Emma. Emma makes me think there should be a word like "widow" for a mother who has lost her child. Since her adult son Robert died, she's hidden in her house, doing little and enjoying less. Sometimes she writes a letter to Robert, as if he could receive it. She has no hope of that, or of anything else.
Things are going to change for Emma -- for all three women. They're going to change a lot.
There are other important characters -- Paul, Janna, Daniel, Sofia, and more. We'll get to those another time.
Do any of these quick character sketches, or the excerpt already published here, interest you enough that you'd like to be one of the first to get hold of the book? Here are some preorder links.
-- Amazon (Kindle)
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-- Bookshop.org (paperback)
-- Barnes & Noble (ebook)
-- Barnes & Noble (paperback)
-- Kobo (ebook)
And here's another look at the cover.
(I hope you like it. I do.)
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