White has a sly wit and true affection for her characters, and no sort of person seems beyond her range as a writer… While some people–and specifically some writers–seem to delve into the supernatural to escape the realities of life, for Jennifer B. “… You won’t feel quite the same about your life or your connections to other people after reading this book. Only to discover what it is to be Otherwise.ĥ Stars – Dr. OTHERWISE is a chilling tale about lonely spirits, protective forces, and departed loved ones who are never really gone-and a woman who, after wanting to die, finds a reason to live and to love again. Nothing-not the people she meets, not this very moment in time, not even the tragic death of her daughter-is what it appears to be. Who she is, and who she’s been, crosses the boundaries of life and death. When Delilah discovers that she is connected to Lily Defoe, a woman who leapt to her death many years ago, and to a man who refers to himself as The Gravedigger for Lost Souls, she realizes there is more to her homecoming than she anticipated.

Upon her arrival, Delilah unwittingly gets caught in the middle of important business between The Keeper, whose job it is to keep souls on the physical plane, and The Sender who helps speed the dead on their afterlife journey. Lonely, angry, and hiding a painful secret, she tries to find a place for herself in a town that she once discovered was “in-between”-a portal to the worlds of the supernatural. And that’s just the beginning of Delilah’s problems. Meema’s ghostly manifestations refuse to let Delilah clean the filthy house, or to reside there peacefully.

Reluctantly, Delilah Gray has returned to her childhood home-a ramshackle cottage where her compulsive, hoarding grandmother, Meema, raised her. “Otherwise should come with a warning: DANGEROUSLY ADDICTIVE… I was fascinated, mesmerized, shocked at times, and very pleased with its originality and vibrant energy…”

Dead Asleep by Jennifer B. White