The Astral, or, Till the Day I Die — V.J. Banis / Victor J. Banis

Shot while trying to prevent the kidnapping, murder, and brutal despoilment of her thirteen-year-old daughter, Southern California book editor Catherine Desmond has a “tunnel-of-light” experience.

“There is something only you can do,” the spirits tell her, and she is returned intact to her former life -- or is she?

When she recovers, Catherine finds herself gifted -- or cursed -- with astral projection, and to her dismay finds herself linked psychically with her daughter's murderer. But he too can project himself, and while she searches for a way to bring the brutal killer to justice, he begins stalking her as well, setting in motion an ethereal cat-and-mouse game, with life -- and death -- hanging in the balance!