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Unhappily Hereafter
By Suzanne Shipley
When Anna dies at age twenty, only weeks before announcing her engagement to an emerging Hollywood star, she is furious. To earn her Heavenly Reward she must work as a spirit guide at Resurrection, Inc., a leader in the post-mortem industry of guiding lives from the Hereafter. Despite her negative attitude, natural talents propel her through the ranks to a mission that will transform lives and change her future.
Author Suzanne Shipley Reads from Unhappily Hereafter
Read Suzanne's Inspiration Behind the Story
2025
To mark my mother’s ninetieth birthday and the concurrent renewal of her Texas driver’s license, I gave her a keyring shaped like an angel and displaying the message to never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. When Mom passed away six years later, I replaced her keys with mine to remind me of the loved ones watching from the afterlife.
The separation between our physical and ethereal worlds can be pictured as a veil. Initially as impenetrable as thick and heavy velvet, the push and pull of everyday life turns it more and more transparent, until it looks like loosely spun silk. Beyond the veil, ethereal hands reach out to us, their hearts accepting our pain and transforming our suffering to joy.
In the novel Unhappily Hereafter, the veil lifts on spirit guide Anna Carter, who’s been sent from the Hereafter to resolve a marital crisis in mid-century Amarillo, Texas. Not until her arrival in the Here and Now is the couple in crisis revealed—her sister has married Anna’s former fiancée.
The mission tests the limits of Anna’s supernatural powers and stretches the dimensions of the afterlife, proving that even when our hearts stop beating, love lives on.
When Our Secrets Mattered Most
Trained to uncover the secrets of others, only his own will reveal the truth.
In 1942, a Nazi movement gains momentum at a remote mountain resort, threatening the Argentine neutrality vital to Allied success in WWII.
When ambitious young fashion designer Risher Griffen disappears during a work assignment in Argentina, Army Ranger Dieter Brandt suspects the work of a Gestapo madman. The woman he loves is trapped and alone with the villain he was sent to destroy.
Where Nothing is Hidden lays bare a sinister alliance between Nazi leaders and corrupt priests, explores POW testimonies critical to reclaiming Europe and unveils a childhood trauma buried too long.
Follow this enigmatic couple’s turbulent journey across Argentina and their sojourn stateside to uncover the secrets shaping an era. Confront with them the contradictions of devotion and duty, where love for country competes with love for one another.
Meet the Author
Suzanne Shipley
As a Fulbright Scholar and Professor of German, Suzanne Shipley specialized in women’s Holocaust experiences, publishing translations and research in over a dozen journals and books.
Between 2007 and 2021, while completing presidencies at Shepherd University in West Virginia and at Midwestern State University in Texas, she authored opinion pieces in newspapers and higher-education publications.
She now lives in the Sonoran Desert city of Tucson, Arizona with her husband Randall and their rescue pup Peaches, where she delights in sharing women’s stories through historical and speculative fiction.
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