Please welcome awesometastic friend and author–Natalie Damschroder!The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies. True love is the driving concept of the story, the idea that nothing can kill it, not even death.But I know people who were widowed early, or who loved deeply but couldn’t be together due to circumstance, and who went on to love someone else just as much. I believe a person can find true love more than once. But if they do, what happens after death? The afterlife isn’t just a religious concept. It’s an important way we cope with the irrefutable fact that we won’t live forever. We like to think that we’ll be with the people we love in that afterlife.So…if you have two true loves? AWK-waaard!I decided to write Afterlife to explore that. In this world, this secular life-after-death, true loves can be together for eternity. If you were lucky enough to have more than one true love, though, well, you have to choose.But hey, why leave it at two true loves? Let’s up the ante and make it three. Three men from three different stages of a woman’s life. Different emotional mixes, different intensities, different personalities to appeal to different parts of my heroine.What kind of heroine could justify three true loves without being an annoying, “perfect” Mary Sue? Chloe came to me pretty easily, because it seemed obvious she had to be a strong, adventurous woman, one not afraid to take risks. Women like that are automatically challenging. They know their flaws, and they own them. A man—or men—who loves her has to be strong, himself. And each man she loves would shape who she grows to be.The loves of her life flowed easily from there. Brady, the wild young first love who died way too early. Ethan, the complex, driven business and family man, whose complexity and drive made both business and family almost impossible. And Tristan, the surprise, full of potential to give Chloe the one thing she’d been missing for most of her life.How can she choose? How could you?So that’s how Afterlife came about. I hope it intrigues you, and if you read it, that you like the choice Chloe makes in the end. I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can reach me through my website, my blog, or Facebook. I’m also on Twitter and part of a group author blog at The GabWagon, and if you like the TV show Supernatural, you should check out Supernatural Sisters, another group author blog where we break down each episode, post related news, and dig deep into the mythology of the show.Thank you so much, Keri, for hosting me today!