ORMOND BEACH, Fla., February 21, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Johnny Rogers was a biker on a mission. He and his girlfriend's brother were out to get revenge for the rape and brutal beating of Johnny's girl, but they are both killed. It is then that the wisecracking Johnny, a disbeliever in the afterlife, is exposed to its beauty and love in Bev Hanson's new novel, Dimensions: A Spiritual Adventure of Epic Proportions (now available through AuthorHouse).
Just after Johnny succumbs to a stab wound, he confronts his spirit guide, Charles, with confusion, fear, sarcasm and a few nervous curse words. Charles takes him to one of many dimensions, where souls live between their earthly manifestations. Still dealing with his sudden death, Johnny resists the reality of such a beautiful place and endures bumbling misadventures while trying to cope with issues and ideas he never believed in on Earth.
He is reunited with family and forgotten friends, and finally achieves spiritual recall, where he is elevated to the fourth dimension only to be faced with a sorrowful separation from his eternal astral love. He interacts with a cast of unique and captivating characters, such as Jacob, his teacher; Paula, his loving essence twin; Ariella, beautiful and ancient leader of the Wise Ones; the Harbinger, a soul destined to change the world; the prophet Ezekiel, who motivates Johnny to duty; and the Nazarene who compels him to glory.
A powerful work that generates many questions just as it provides many answers, Dimensions has been praised by readers as a story that changed their lives forever. The sometimes tearful, often laughable reactions of its main character as he wends his way through his new environment provide a classic model for the artful skill of character development.
Hanson began her career in Atlanta in 1970 as a photojournalist for a popular magazine. A self-employed consultant for most of her career, she was an 18-year veteran of public relations, marketing, advertising, video and radio script writing before she moved to Florida where she spent another nine years as president and creative director of her own advertising agency. She then founded an upscale regional monthly magazine (HALIFAX, the Journal of Florida's Fun Coast), which she published and edited for eight years. Dimensions is her first book.
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