Derek Boone dies in an icy drive home after a show with his band. Twenty-three hours later, doctors revive him with cutting edge technology, yet his memory of what happened during that nearly full day of clinical death is blocked—by something. Deadly efforts to discover what he experienced are led by a radical cult and deadly agent from a religious organization. What they learn could either bring down the church or set off a chaotic moment in history.
When he awakens months later from a coma, Boone begins to experience flashbacks to the accident. Visions he calls "bruised clouds" haunt him, plaguing him as harbingers to his fate, as he struggles with his beliefs and lack of faith. Is it his fractured sanity or does something want him back?
The cult, comprised of near-death-experience survivors, led by an unstable couple who seek a path to change their fates, by any means. The church sends their best agent to kill Boone's story before he tells the world. Both groups seek the truth of what Boone saw on the other side, and possibly silence him for good.
After a bloodbath on a televised talk show, Boone finds himself on the run from New Jersey to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, to find his own truth, even if it leads him straight into the hands of the enemy. Even if Boone manages to evade death again, what he ultimately discovers will shatter those close to him and could devastate millions in religions around the world.
If he can remember.
