Paperback, 340 pages
Published
December 21st 2011
by OakBluffs Press / OakIvy Publishing
Reluctantly, Delilah Gray has returned to her childhood home--a
ramshackle cottage where her compulsive, hoarding grandmother, Meema,
raised her. Meema's ghostly manifestations refuse to let Delilah clean
the filthy house, or to stay there peacefully. And that's just the
beginning of Delilah's problems.
Lonely, angry, and
hiding a painful secret, she tries to find a place for herself in a town
that she once discovered was "in-between"--a portal to the worlds of
the supernatural. Upon her arrival, Delilah unwittingly gets caught in
the middle of important business between The Keeper, whose job it is to
keep souls on the physical plane, and The Sender who helps speed the
dead on their afterlife journey.
When Delilah
discovers that she is connected to Lily Defoe, a woman who leapt to her
death many years ago, and to a man who refers to himself as The
Gravedigger for Lost Souls, she realizes there is more to her homecoming
than she anticipated. Who she is, and who she's been, crosses the
boundaries of life and death. Nothing--not the people she meets, not
this very moment in time, not even the tragic death of her daughter--is
what it appears to be. Not only does Delilah have her own "soul
searching" to do, but she must work with some of Green Lake's oddest
characters to uncover the mysteries of several unsolved deaths that have
never been forgotten.
While strange and
supernatural occurrences threaten Delilah's already fragile emotional
state, she still has a crucial choice to make that will change
everything. She comes to understand that there are some things that are
worse than death. There is Otherwise--to be confined to a twilight state
between the spiritual and the physical worlds.
OTHERWISE
is a chilling tale about lonely spirits, protective forces, and
departed loved ones who are never really gone--and a woman who, after
wanting to die, finds a reason to live and to love again. Only to
discover what it is to be Otherwise.
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Otherwise is very much like a Shakespearean love story. Full of suffering, drama, tragedy, romance and ghost. It was very mysterious and intriguing read which had me guessing at every turn.
Delilah Gray finds herself back home after being gone for years during a bad storm on Hermit Meddler's Way confused, mad, and wet. She never wanted to come back home after growing up with an embarrassment of a grandmother who was a hoarder and suffered from agoraphobia. Delilah has no where else to go so she figures after paying the taxes on the property for year she will clean it up and call it her own. This plan turns out to be much, much harder than she intended it to be. Especially when her grandmother Meema's ghost is haunting the place. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many things going on around that house and with the people she meets that she doesn't know what is what or who is who. And she especially doesn't know why she feels so connected to her new friends Shane and Casimir. There is something about them that she can't put her finger on.
This story is Delilah's twisty and windy journey to find out the truth about who she is, reconnect with a long lost love, and mend relationships that where destroyed buy malevolent act so long ago. I think Jennifer does a really good job with explaining to the readers how all the people and places are all connected without it being too overwhelming. It was really fun to get some of the clues and put them together and then be shocked to find out what exactly had happen. This was a engrossing and enjoyable book which took me into a world of ghost, Otherwise, Keepers, Gravediggers, Senders and Aeridyx. It was a whole new would for me and I truly enjoyed it!
Delilah Gray finds herself back home after being gone for years during a bad storm on Hermit Meddler's Way confused, mad, and wet. She never wanted to come back home after growing up with an embarrassment of a grandmother who was a hoarder and suffered from agoraphobia. Delilah has no where else to go so she figures after paying the taxes on the property for year she will clean it up and call it her own. This plan turns out to be much, much harder than she intended it to be. Especially when her grandmother Meema's ghost is haunting the place. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many things going on around that house and with the people she meets that she doesn't know what is what or who is who. And she especially doesn't know why she feels so connected to her new friends Shane and Casimir. There is something about them that she can't put her finger on.
This story is Delilah's twisty and windy journey to find out the truth about who she is, reconnect with a long lost love, and mend relationships that where destroyed buy malevolent act so long ago. I think Jennifer does a really good job with explaining to the readers how all the people and places are all connected without it being too overwhelming. It was really fun to get some of the clues and put them together and then be shocked to find out what exactly had happen. This was a engrossing and enjoyable book which took me into a world of ghost, Otherwise, Keepers, Gravediggers, Senders and Aeridyx. It was a whole new would for me and I truly enjoyed it!
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"Run, run as fast as you can, away from here, then back again. Oh, but when I see her face, a perfect child, so full of grace, I see the past, the present and soon, the future comes with passing moons. You cannot run. What heals the most? And so I write to face my ghosts."
"Run, run as fast as you can, away from here, then back again. Oh, but when I see her face, a perfect child, so full of grace, I see the past, the present and soon, the future comes with passing moons. You cannot run. What heals the most? And so I write to face my ghosts."
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