Karl Himmel tells the story to an unknown presence of how he met, fell in love, and married the woman of his dreams, Jenny Engels. But at the time of the telling, Karl and Jenny find themselves on different sides of the veil—the separation we call death. But not even death can stop true love. Powerful signs come to those from loved ones who have passed. They can be found any and everywhere; we just need to look for them. The most significant for Karl and Jenny was the finding of numerous wheat-back pennies. However, could there have been many others, and did these signs have a deeper meaning?
Of all the books I have written, none are as important to me as Pennies From Across the Veil. Its influence comes from every person I ever knew, loved, and who happened to die. With each and every person I ever knew who passed from this world to the next came signs, dreams, and occurrences, especially right afterward. Then I discovered it happened to other people as well. Sometimes the similarity of the events was striking. There were often common themes, such as butterflies, feathers, late-night phone calls, and yes, pennies. I was deeply moved to take all these experiences and combine them into one romantic love story about death. This is not a ghost story but a story of love, passion, and survival.
Award-winning author Dennis Higgins is a distant relative of Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier. He has traveled the world over, collecting story ideas. As a native of Chicago, Illinois, Dennis Higgins has a passion for things that are gone but not forgotten, a romance with the past. For him, time travel is the answer. If not for real, then in the pages of his books.
He now lives in the Chicago suburbs with his lovely wife and their Lhasa Poo dog, Dom Perignon.
Among his influences are Richard Matheson, Jack Finny, Dean Koontz, Joan Wester Anderson, Peter S. Beagle, and Audrey Niffenegger.
Author of Pennies From Across the Veil, Parallel Roads (Lost on Route 66), the Time Pilgrim series: (Katya and Cyrus, Almost Yesterday, and Tomorrow's Borrowed Trouble), Steampunk Alice, The Old Scrapbook, The Writer’s Apprentice, Christmas Returns to Pottersville, Confessions of an Internet Scammer, Goes to Eleven, and The Automated Wife.
Current work in process: Steampunk Lacey (Sequel to Steampunk Alice)
5.0 out of 5 stars Wish I could give it 10 Stars!
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2016
Incredibly beautiful. This book is a soul toucher. It drew me in from the beginning and wouldn't let go. Poignant and sweet, it will take you from happiness to anguish and back in a heartbeat, and you will never be the same. Pennies From Across the Veil is an affirmation of love and also reaffirms that nothing and no one who is loved is ever truly lost. Awesome Read!
5.0 out of 5 stars Get your Kleenex ready
Pennies from across the Veil is a great story, and I recommend it highly.
One of the sweetest love stories I’ve read in a long time, but this one is different in so many ways.
I was confused a little at first, because we’re being told a story through the eyes of the main character- who is obviously not alone.
All in due time, you’ll figure it out just as you are flung deeper and deeper into the lives and minds of Karl and Jenny.
The signs, symbols, and truths are melded together perfectly to allow the reader to accept the depth of what they’re reading.
The characters are real and I enjoyed getting know them all.
5.0 out of 5 stars A penny for your thoughts
I have read love stories. I have read ghost stories. Now I have read a present, afterlife love story.
Dennis, you engaged my heart and my eyes in a beautiful mystery of life and death. I believe and yet you have helped expand my own thoughts of after. This story had me lose sleep and some productivity. ... which -to me- is the best recommendation for a book!
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