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Afterlife
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three strangers. One death. An eternity to make it right.
Douglas Bishop, Quinn Daniels, and Janice Felps have nothing in common - different cities, different lives, different reasons to have given up on themselves. Then, within the same twenty-five minutes, all three of them die.
What follows isn't heaven or hell, but something stranger: a judgment built not on punishment, but on honesty. A tribunal of souls who once sat exactly where they're sitting now. And a verdict that sends each of them somewhere different - one toward eternal peace, one toward a second life on earth with no memory of the first, and one toward the hardest job of all: learning to guide the people she loves from just beyond the world she can no longer touch.
But death doesn't end what binds them. As Douglas is reborn - given a new name, a new family, and every one of his old failures buried just beneath the surface - Quinn and Janice are given an impossible assignment: watch him, without controlling him. Nudge him, without saving him. Prove, across the length of an entire human lifetime, that a person who has done real harm can still become someone worth being.
From a toddler's first steps to a CEO's costliest mistake, from a preschool sandbox to a boardroom on fire, Afterlife follows one soul's slow, imperfect climb toward redemption - and the two guides who love him enough to let him fail.
A story about second chances, the restraint it takes to truly help someone, and the quiet, cumulative weight of small kindnesses - Afterlife asks what we owe each other, in this life and whatever comes after it.
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