Overview

Geri Maples is bored. She's unsatisfied. Nothing about her life excites her. She leaves her job as an elementary teacher each day with nothing to look forward to but more of the same. She keeps her head down, never looking up or toward something better. All that changes when she leaves school one day and-while running in the rain, desperate only to get somewhere dry-she's hit by a car. Thrust into a coma, Geri enters a world few ever encounter while still alive. Geri leaves her gray life and bursts into a world of Technicolor. She sees shimmering golden apples hanging from sparkling trees. She hears glorious music in unknown languages. She meets people from her past, long dead. She dances with a stranger and feels the stirrings of love and the promise of peace. The sisters of salvation show Geri that there's more to life than she ever knew. They reveal to her the power of God's mercy, grace, and salvation. They offer her a love more perfect than anything this world could give. And in a final miracle, God shows Geri that his arm is not too short to save-even at the eleventh hour.