Cpl. Caitlyn McAdams returns home from war, back to her family and the life she knew—but she doesn't return whole. How can she forget the man she left behind—a man she'd met only once before—a casualty of a roadside bomb, dying in front of her? And then, one day, he comes back. From the award-winning creator of The Future Chronicles, Samuel Peralta, comes Hereafter, a spellbinding short story of love and time travel, of distance and longing, of separation and faith. Hereafter is a dazzling story that crosses the traditional boundaries of speculative fiction, romance, and literary fiction, to ask whether, bounded by space and time, love is truly enough. Already drawing comparisons by readers to the work of Audrey Niffenegger ( The Time Traveler's Wife ) and Richard Matheson ( Somewhere in Time, What Dreams May Come ), Hereafter is a remarkable and unconventional tale that Peralta's masterful and poetic storytelling makes into a wondrous tapestry, and a majestic triumph.