When 50-year-old Lucas Palmer falls out of a rowboat into northern California's Russian River, he initiates rapid and mysterious changes in the life of his unhappy daughter Wendy. While the comatose Lucas conducts a searching inventory of his past, he must also negotiate the peace in a ludicrous battle between two after-life guides. Meanwhile Wendy gets an unexpected makeover - and learns secrets of her own past that shake her very foundations. When the parallel and mystically linked stories of LOVE AFTER LIFE converge in a gripping conclusion, every reader will be left with a new appreciation of the staying power of love and the hidden reserves of the human spirit. "A lucid, deftly told tale of the healing power of love and the tenacity of spirit." - TIM FARRINGTON, author of The Monk Downstairs, A Hell of Mercy, and California Book of the Dead ¿¿"This beautifully plotted tale of the hapless and the sublime takes off when a clueless man has one generous, heartfelt thought. Comic pratfalls and crossed wires abound and delight until a miracle that was brewing all along comes to fruition... A fabuluous approach to an elusive and important subject." - CLIVE MATSON, author of Let the Crazy Child Write! "D. Patrick Miller has done what all novelists hope to do - hook the readers in the first five pages and not let go. Wendy and her father Lucas are immediately real and vibrant characters, and it is well worth the reader's time to take their journey with them." - M.J. ROSE, NY Times best-selling author of The Last Tiara and Cartier's Hope