{"id":231,"date":"2011-09-06T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T16:32:07","slug":"hereafter-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Hereafter, by Tara Hudson (fiction) – dead, yet tied to the living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mysterious Monday lingers on, bringing you an unusual story of ghostly Amelia, seemingly anchored to the river after her death.<\/p>\n

So many ghost stories<\/a> and legends are told in the Ouachita Mountains of southeast Oklahoma, from Jesse James’ missing million dollars<\/a> hidden near possibly haunted Robbers Cave to the notorious Belle Starr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are there truly ghost seekers<\/a> like Joshua’s grandmother? We’ve heard of love that lasts even beyond death, but can a dead spirit and a living person fall in love?<\/p>\n

Enjoy this eerie debut novel and cheer for Joshua and Amelia as she tries to recapture memories of her life and her death while being pulled by evil forces beyond the river.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: Hereafter \/ Tara Hudson. Harper Teen, 2011. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>]
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\nRecommendation<\/b>: Amelia races through the dark river waters to save a young man from drowning\u2026even though she\u2019s already dead. She doesn\u2019t know how she died or where or even when, but she does know that she must save him from dying into her dreary hazy world.<\/p>\n

No one on High Bridge Road saw her rescue Joshua, not his high school buddies, not the rescue squad from their small Oklahoma town \u2013 no one ever sees her wandering near the \u201chaunted bridge.\u201d Amelia wonders why she could lift his head above the water when she can\u2019t carry other real things.<\/p>\n

When Joshua returns to the scene of his accident and recognizes her as his rescuer, Amelia is startled into speaking \u2013 and he hears her, too! As they spend more time together, Amelia begins to remember tiny fragments of her life, always returning to the river. Joshua is charmed by her, and she revels in his company.<\/p>\n

But a malignant force in the river is pulling at her \u2013 dead Eli claims that she must always stay at the river, that she must lure others to their death at the High Bridge, that she must become his and his alone.<\/p>\n

Did Amelia really cause Joshua\u2019s car to go into the river? Can she find out enough about her life to discover the truth about her own death? Is Eli right about her destiny as part of the haunted High Bridge\u2019s future?<\/p>\n

This mysterious love story from first-time author Tara Hudson brings a new twist to the ghost stories of Oklahoma\u2019s wilderness forests. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mysterious Monday lingers on, bringing you an unusual story of ghostly Amelia, seemingly anchored to the river after her death. So many ghost stories and legends are told in the Ouachita Mountains of southeast Oklahoma, from Jesse James’ missing million dollars hidden near possibly haunted Robbers Cave to the notorious Belle Starr. Are there truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30,51,41],"tags":[7,4,20,5,37,16,18,39,49,15,21,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","category-mystery","category-paranormal","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}