Website By Tom McGill, assisted by, Scott Watson

Afterworlds is almost two novels instead of one, it features the story of Darcy Patel and her life as an almost published author and her fiction within fiction book "Afterworlds". The Afterworlds fictional (within the other story) story is a skilfully crafted supernatural romantic adventure about a teenage girl called Lizzie who, after being the sole survivor of a violent terrorist attack becomes attuned to a hidden world of life after death existing on Earth but in a different plane of perception and reality. She discovers she has become a soul guide and meets Yamaraj, a veteran guide and main character throughout.

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The story features several aspects of Hindu beliefs which the author ( of the fiction within fiction sections) struggles with the moral correctness of using such elements, this is a particularly impressive detail that illustrates the completeness of the authors understanding of readers concerns. It is an incredible feat for the tale of an anxious debut author who has just moved to Manhattan to be read beside an amazing story of myth mixed with modern day sensibilities and for them to complement and compete with each other. However, even though the Darcy story features a mature attitude to a homosexual relationship between two debut authors, the two love stories in the books seem to only happen simply to move the book from the first parts of their respective storylines. In both instances two characters that have only just met or have met after briefly talked beforehand fall into what is often described as true love instantaneously. This may happen once in a book, but never twice.