Cover Reveal – Life After Death – Thereafter by Terri Bruce

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I read Hereafter, Book I, and fell in love with Irene. I have been waiting for Thereafter and am very excited to be a part of this tour.

Would You Like A Glimpse of the Afterlife? Review of Hereafter by Terri Bruce

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Thereafter, Afterlife, Book 2 by Terri Bruce

 Genre: Contemporary fantasy/paranormal

 Publisher: Mictlan Press

 Date of Publication: May 1, 2014

 ISBN: 978-0-9913036-2-5 (print) /

ISBN: 978-0-9913036-3-2 (ebook)

Number of pages: 318

Word Count: 99,000

 Cover Artist: Artwork by Shelby Robinson;

Cover layout by Jennifer Stolzer

 Book Description

When recently-deceased Irene Dunphy decided to “follow the light,” she thought she’d end up in Heaven or Hell and her journey would be over.

Boy, was she wrong.

She soon finds that “the other side” isn’t a final destination but a kind of purgatory where billions of spirits are stuck, with no way to move forward or back. Even worse, deranged phantoms known as “Hungry Ghosts” stalk the dead, intent on destroying them. The only way out is for Irene to forget her life on earth—including the boy who risked everything to help her cross over—which she’s not about to do.

As Irene desperately searches for an alternative, help unexpectedly comes in the unlikeliest of forms: a twelfth-century Spanish knight and a nineteenth-century American cowboy. Even more surprising, one offers a chance for redemption; the other, love. Unfortunately, she won’t be able to have either if she can’t find a way to escape the hellish limbo where they’re all trapped.

 Author’s Note

I am THRILLED beyond all measure to finally be able to bring you Thereafter, and I want to thank all the fans who have waited (more or less patiently) an extra year for this book to finally come out. Thereafter would not have been possible without your support—thank you all! I hope you love this beautiful new cover as much as I do, and I hope you find Thereafter to be worth the wait.

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EXCERPT

Her hand touched a rock, one of the flat beach stones she’d seen on graves. She picked it up, laying it flat in her palm. She didn’t remember picking this up. In fact, she had been careful not to take any. It had seemed disrespectful and too much like stealing to remove them, and while she’d seen a few here—both loose and piled in cairns—she hadn’t picked any of them up. There had been no point. What would she do with a rock?

No wonder her bag was so heavy.

She tossed the rock over her shoulder and heard it hit the ground with a satisfying thud some distance away. It felt good to be rid of something, to make a decision and be sure it was the right one.

She surveyed the pile again and then grabbed a small handful of paper animals. She picked one up between a finger and thumb. It was a horse. Irene had been in Chinatown during Chinese Ghost Festival, a holiday in which the living left offerings for the dead. These offerings included paper replicas of things people thought the dead would need in the afterlife—money, clothes, television sets, and even animals. Irene had admired the precise and delicate folds of the Origami figures and had picked some up to admire them more closely. Without thinking, she had dropped them into her bag and apparently been carrying them ever since.

Well, even Jonah couldn’t argue with her on this—there was no way she was going to need a paper horse on her journey through the afterlife. Plus, these didn’t hold any sentimental value. She cast the horse onto a nearby fire and watched as the paper curled and blackened in the low-burning flames.

The fire leapt and seemed to glow blue for a moment. Irene tensed—what was happening?

Thick black smoke began to rise slowly from the flames, spiraling upward in a thickening column. The smoke grew denser and then elongated sideways. Irene leapt to her feet and backed away, her heart pounding. Something was forming in the fire.

The smoke was taking shape now; there was purpose and design in its movements. She could see a long, horizontal back, four legs, a neck, and finally a head and a tail. The smoke swirled with a final flourish and then shuddered into the solidity of a smoke-colored horse. The animal blinked passively. Then it violently shook its head, blew out a breath, and delicately picked its way forward out of the fire. It immediately put its head down and began to lip the ground, looking for food.

Irene stared stupidly at it. “Are you shitting me?”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Terri BruceTerri Bruce has been making up adventure stories for as long as she can remember. Like Anne Shirley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, but is happy if she can do either. She produces fantasy and adventure stories from a haunted house in New England where she lives with her husband and three cats.

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 Would You Like A Glimpse of the Afterlife? Review of Hereafter by Terri Bruce

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13 thoughts on “Cover Reveal – Life After Death – Thereafter by Terri Bruce

    • Happy to share the awesome cover. Can hardly wait to dive into the book and see what happens next. ^_^

  1. I know you loved this cover art Sherry! A boat, the water, and trees! I love the contrast with her red dress and her surroundings. Very well done! I’ve been wanting to read the first book. Guess I better get a move on now:)
    Not getting your emails yet but I can comment now!

    • Hereafter was fantastic and I loved the world that Terri created. I am excited to read Thereafter. I wonder what she is thinking.

  2. Yay! It’s letting me leave a comment! I should’ve checked sooner!
    Glad things are starting to look up!
    I LOVE the cover of this book and the blurb hooks me immediately. MUST READ! Guess I better start with book 1 though!

    • I breathed a sigh of relief when we got the comments working. Progress, yay! Terri Bruce has a unique way of looking at the afterlife and I am loving it. Can hardly wait to see what happens next. ^_^ I really appreciate you stopping in and commenting.

  3. Awww, thanks everyone – I’m so glad you all like the cover. Shelby Robinson, the artist, has done an AMAZING job with the artwork for this series. I’ve been sitting on this artwork for a few months now, dying to share it.

      • LOL – we’re working on the cover to Book #3 now and that’s going to be even more amazing!!!

        • I look forward to seeing it. When do you expect to reveal it? Got me curious now.

          • I don’t know – I’m working on wrapping up the first draft of Book #3. I hoped to have it out in the fall, but it’s more likely it will be out spring next year. Releasing 3 books in one year might kill me 🙂

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