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

At the sound of his name, with a single beat of my heart that beat just for him, whether it was or wasn’t beating for real, there he was. There I was. “Shawn.” It wasn’t enough to hear his name. I wanted to speak it. “It’s Shawn, Mystic.”


“Hear me, Shawn.” I wanted to hold him, no matter what I might be missing downstairs.


We were reunited in the room we were to share on our honeymoon night, the biggest one, with the en suite bath that featured a whirlpool tub I’d planned on floating rose petals in. We would have had the house to ourselves, once the others flew back to LA. They hadn’t, of course, because of me.


It was more like he was talking to himself. Grieving. He was in bed. Likely depressed, possibly too devastated to even go through the motions, maybe he hadn’t gotten out of it since getting word of my accident.


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