Helen Cook

Lieutenant Alice Turner is a brilliant young technician assigned to maintain the integrity of the Meta Probe while its primary crew recover from a mysterious virus infection. Alice finds herself unexpectedly at the helm of the awesome interstellar spacecraft when 911 hits earth on a galactic scale! This disaster is not September 11th, 2001 but rather September 13th, 1999.

Having just been fired and dumped by his wife, life couldn't possibly be worse for independent artist Gordon Hauge (Mark Redfield)—until he wrecks his car and finds himself in purgatory, that is. Once there, he is attacked by fanatic Shadowmen and legions of Ragmen—souls being enslaved and bent to some dark purpose. Gordon is rescued by an eccentric band of freedom fighters, people from different times of history who lost their lives in noble sacrifice. They recruit the reluctant and befuddled Gordon and set off on a wild adventure through the surreal landscapes of purgatory to battle the Despiser—an evil being who now reigns in this seemingly God-abandoned halfway house north of hell and south of heaven.