Life is simple, right? You are born, you live, and you die. Or at least that is the way it is suppose to happen. But what if...what if you get a second chance, to live a life that was taken from you, the life that you were supposed to live? The life that you have no memory of, and what if you had known love, real love? Would you give it a second chance, or would you consider loyalty for family over true love. Being a teenager isn't supposed to be complicated, right? But when Abigail Watson's mother marries a stranger and moves her across country into the manor, a place that would be fitting for Dracula, Abby soon starts to have nightmares. Abby then meets a mysterious boy, who seems to know all about Abby and the family that she has been inducted into. From the moment she meets Ethan she feels connected to him, there is something about him, so familiar, so safe. But Ethan has secrets, secrets he doesn't want to share, and he will have to make a choice if he wants to keep history from repeating itself.

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The original purpose of this book was to explore various religious ideas and beliefs relating to the hereafter. The title was to be "The Hereafter-Maybe "

On completion of the first few chapters, the author concluded that every major religion's philosophy-theology had included much 'nonsense', at least if viewed solely from common sense. Thus, this text took on an increased scope. It has a wealth of imagination on holy belief and the possibilities of an afterlife.

Most nonfiction writers on the subject of religion generally endorse a preconditioned, accepted view as truth and even the only truth. This book's author believes all truth is partial and that any human belief about God from any religion is, at best, partial. Both the expert and the layman will find food for thought regarding the reality of their own religious philosophy.

Life is simple, right? You are born, you live, and you die. Or at least that is the way it is suppose to happen. But what if...what if you get a second chance, to live a life that was taken from you, the life that you were supposed to live? The life that you have no memory of, and what if you had known love, real love? Would you give it a second chance, or would you consider loyalty for family over true love. Being a teenager isn't supposed to be complicated, right? But when Abigail Watson's mother marries a stranger and moves her across country into the manor, a place that would be fitting for Dracula, Abby soon starts to have nightmares. Abby then meets a mysterious boy, who seems to know all about Abby and the family that she has been inducted into. From the moment she meets Ethan she feels connected to him, there is something about him, so familiar, so safe. But Ethan has secrets, secrets he doesn't want to share, and he will have to make a choice if he wants to keep history from repeating itself.

The story starts from the time I was born to the present. It entails the control endured from my mother as well as my husband. It describes the emotional and physical abuse I received from my mother until my marriage, and the emotional and total control of my husband during my marriage. It tells the problems that I encountered within my marriage with my children as well as my husband. It presents a family trying to survive without giving or receiving love. It shows me desperately trying to hold together something that had not chance of survival without all of us working at it. It describes details of certain situations with my mother, husband and children. It show how inadequate I was until I got help.

An unusual perspective on the unification of science and religion.