NOW OUT! Heaven Can't Wait

Heaven Can't Wait

This novella was released in 2014 with Dreamspinner Press. It's been out of print for about six years. I've had a lot of requests for it, so I'm thrilled to be able to get it back on the market. This is an updated second edition with a new cover and edited content.

Truly, this is one of my favorite Eli Easton stories. I have a fascination with philosophy, the metaphysical, and NDEs (Near Death Experiences). This story hits all my favorite subjects! It is not at all 'heavy' but a lighter, comic romance.

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This college romance is a match made in heaven. Literally.

When Brian dies at nineteen, his less-than-stellar performance here on Earth puts his soul in limbo. He has one chance to redeem himself at the pearly gates. All Brian has to do is save the life of Kevin Anderson, a guy he and his friends teased for being gay.

Kevin had big dreams about life at college--friends, parties, acceptance for who he really is, maybe even a nice boyfriend. But his dorm roommate, Chuck, and his stupid friends, prove him wrong on day one with their casual homophobia. Now he can only wait for another room to open up—and try to keep his eyes off sexy, uber-straight Chuck.

Chuck is struggling to keep up the tough-guy façade everyone expects from him. But being trapped in a dorm room with the prettiest twink he’s ever seen isn’t helping.

If Brian can untangle this mess, he’ll deserve his wings.

Heaven Can't Wait is a tongue-in-cheek romance featuring college roommates secretly crushing on each other, a meddling angel wannabe, mishaps, temptation, and the meaning of life. No biggie.

LINKS:

Amazon US

Amazon UK

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Thank you all a million times for continuing to read and support my work. Happy spring and blessings!

Eli

"Heaven Can't Wait" - Eli goes Metaphysical

My backlist special for the rest of February and March is “Heaven Can’t Wait”. It is only 99c on the Dreamspinner site. You can find it here.

This novella was published in 2014 as part of Dreamspinner’s “Daily Dose”, their summer anthology series. I think for that reason, people who didn’t subscribe to the Daily Dose may not have seen it or read it. Which is a shame, because this is one of my favorite novellas that I’ve ever written.

I’ve always been a fan of metaphorical stories. I studied philosophy for a few semesters and loved it! I almost got a masters in it, except I talked myself out of it, thinking it wasn’t practical. But as a protestant minister’s daughter, and later an uber liberal who was interested in Buddishm, New Age ideas, near-death experiences, as well as the paranormal, I’ve always been interested in what lies beyond this world and various concepts of heaven, hell, judgement, God, etc.

I remember how delighted I was when I read Anne Rice’s “Memnoch the Devil” because in it, Lucifer goes into whole chapters of discussion about creation and why he rebelled and what was wrong with God’s whole scheme. I ate up that shiz. Years later, as a thriller writer writing under the name Jane Jensen, I wrote a huge novel about the meaning of good and evil and life after death called “Dante’s Equation”.

“Heaven Can’t Wait” is the Eli Easton, lightly-tapdancing-on-the-metaphyiscal expression of that interest. In this m/m romance, an intolerant young man wakes up to find himself dead. His soul is on the tipping point between heaven and hell, so in order to redeem himself, he has to go back to Earth as a ghost and save the life of a bullied young man (and maybe find the guy a boyfriend too).

If it sounds heavy, it’s not. This is a humorous take on the subject, with our intrepid ghost Brian screwing up at every turn, and his mentor in heaven, Peter, being rather impatient and sarcastic. But despite the humor, there are some interesting ideas in the story, I think. Peter explains to Brian why people are born gay, for example. And in the end, Brian realizes a lot of what he believed when he was human is just plain wrong.

But whether the ideas interest you, or you just read it for a fun romance lark, I think you’ll enjoy “Heaven Can’t Wait”. Check it out while the sale lasts!

HEAVEN CAN’T WAIT SALE.