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In the Afterlight, there is no place to hide.
Nathaniel Reed spent his entire life building the perfect fortress. As a high-powered corporate accountant, he mastered the art of the ledger, believing that if he just built a big enough wall, he could out-math tragedy, silence his grief, and protect his family from an unpredictable world.
He was wrong.
When Nathaniel's life ends in a sudden, violent crash, he doesn't awaken in peace. He awakens in the Afterlight-a stark, metaphysical landscape where the truth is not an idea, but a physical law. Here, his unconfessed pride has actual mass, and his rationalizations boil the very water he must traverse.
Forced to audit his own soul, Nathaniel finds himself suspended between the fortress he spent decades building and the home he can no longer reach: a cabin where his lost daughter waits. Haunted by the manifestations of the people he emotionally abandoned, Nathaniel is hunted by a predatory, velvet-voiced adversary who offers him a seductive alternative: a perfectly isolated kingdom where he never has to face the guilt of his past again.
To survive the rising tide of his own unconfessed life, Nathaniel must dismantle the Architect he worked so hard to become and choose the only thing his ledgers could never account for-true, terrifying surrender.
The End... is a gripping speculative thriller that explores the cost of control and the devastating beauty of grace.
J. Scott is an award-winning author of children's stories, fantasy novels, and works exploring faith, family, and hope. His children's books include The Creatures of Tiddleton Hollow, How to Tame a Tumbletot, The Happy Hum of Tiddleburrow, and The ABC's to Zachery's Zzzzs. Based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, he publishes through Sparky Bites Publishing.Together with his wife, D. Scott, he wrote Bye, Love You, Bye and The Christmas Star of Tiddleton Hollow for their grandsons, Dominic and Dylan. Through gentle rhymes, whimsical creatures, and heartfelt lessons, their stories celebrate the importance of family, faith, kindness, and the love we share with one another.
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