The monitor flatlines. The doctors work fast. The paddles charge. His family watches from the corner of the room.

And Bob Frisbee, husband, father, lifelong pilot, feels something snap.

He wakes in a room he doesn't recognize.

No windows.

A door with no handle.

Light with no source.

And seated across a carved antique table is a man with a file, an impossibly thick file,

who introduces himself only as Mr. O. You're in the waiting room,

he says, and we have a great deal to get through. Everything Bob has ever done is in that file.

Every person he wronged and never faced. Every wound he carried that quietly poisoned

the people around him. Every dark corner of life that looked from the outside, perfectly ordinary.

Above them, a golden wheel appears, and the spokes that are dark are the ones that matter most.

But this isn't just a life review.

Behind the veil of the world Bob thought he knew something has been moving, ancient, deliberate,

with a face that doesn't belong on anything that was ever human.

There are forces here that don't want Bob to finish what he has started, and the waiting

room has an escape tunnel, but Mr. O. won't tell him where that leads.

The Waiting Room, a novel by L.A. Marzuli, the researcher who has spent decades pulling

back the veil on the

supernatural world, most people pretend isn't there. Narrated by Darren Marler. You die. Then,

the reckoning begins. The Waiting Room by L.A. Marzuli, a new audiobook, available now on the audiobooks page at

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