Hereafter

Hereafter
Tara Hudson

A stranded spirit, a sudden love…Beautiful elegiac love story that crosses the divide between the living and the dead, in a powerful vision of longing and loss.“A tender and poignant love story with a ghostly twist.” Becca Fitzpatrick, bestselling author of Hush, HushThis debut paranormal romance will leave you breathless.Can there truly be love after death?Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no recollection of her past life – or her actual death – she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit is doing everything in his power to destroy their new-found happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world… forever.Thrilling and evocative, with moments of pure pleasure, ‘Hereafter’ is a sensation you won't want to miss.

To Robert. In an instant. In a heartbeat.

Contents

Chapter One

It was the same as always, but different from the…

Chapter Two

My first impression of the scene was wrong. The water…

Chapter Three

Two days passed.

Chapter Four

I was just full of foolish impulses lately. There he…

Chapter Five

Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for…

Chapter Six

That night I didn’t mark the passage of time with…

Chapter Seven

I shouldn’t have been surprised. My world had changed the…

Chapter Eight

Death may have stolen my old memories of riding in…

Chapter Nine

After school ended, Joshua drove us back to Robber’s Cave…

Chapter Ten

By the time Joshua pulled his car off the main…

Chapter Eleven

I have no idea how long I wandered after I…

Chapter Twelve

I bolted upright, gasping.

Chapter Thirteen

At the sound of the knock on the window, we…

Chapter Fourteen

After Ms. Wolters’s class ended and other students made their way…

Chapter Fifteen

Joshua guessed it would take us at least twenty minutes…

Chapter Sixteen

When the oppressive black water finally vanished, I woke up,…

Chapter Seventeen

Long after Ruth disappeared back into the church, I paced…

Chapter Eighteen

The first step into his bedroom transformed me into a…

Chapter Nineteen

While the night shifted into morning and Joshua slept on,…

Chapter Twenty

“Would you like to hear a story, Amelia?”

Chapter Twenty-One

I felt my vision narrow to a black pinpoint and…

Chapter Twenty-Two

Joshua hunched over his cup of coffee—the last remains of…

Chapter Twenty-Three

It was the same as always.