Hollywood soundstage tutor Otto Brennington has always felt invisible. Then he meets super hunk Shawn Slate. Hot sex on their first date leads to a marriage proposal. With their whole lives ahead of them, they wed in Hawaii, then celebrate with a skydive, where death does them part.<br><br>Otto is in for the shock of his afterlife upon discovering where he’ll now spend eternity. Once there, a series of sweet yet unexplainable visions lead him to believe the life just lost wasn’t his first. Was it also possibly not his last?<br><br>With the aid of several paranormal beings, Otto learns the ins and outs of his new existence, one he plans on making temporary. Will he make it back to the land of the living and the man of his dreams? Is that man Shawn? Or will Otto decide his newest acquaintances make the place he’s in not so bad after all?

Monsters

“Floating clothes moving about became an odd distraction, even to people accustomed to witchcraft and the supernatural. The entirety of my parents’ love story and my coming into the world and then being taken from her drove my mother mad. She did not live to the age she should have.”


“Yes. They are angels now together, perhaps. Or it might be that she found another, since my father and I only brought her strife. Either way, they must be happy, if one believes in the Heavenly realm.”


I was close enough to Artemis to feel him shrug. “Perhaps I have trouble believing in most things good.”


“Even love? If your parents loved one another, maybe now that love can be, when it couldn’t before.”


“I hope that is possible. My cynicism bothers me. One rather unfortunate consequence of being immortal and all alone is how often and how long one has to recall sad events. If only I’d been spelled to have no memories instead of no form.”


Chapter 36