Gabe Hart’s day is planned down to the last minute. Until it’s not.
The young widower bolts out of bed at 3 a.m. like a corpse come to life in a morgue. He’s overlooked a key detail in his meticulous plan.
This is just the beginning, however, of multiple revelations that will challenge Gabe the next fourteen hours—the time he has to honor two promises, both made after the tragic loss of his nine-year-old daughter Leesie three years before.
Over the course of the day, Gabe vows to keep his word to his beloved late-wife Irish and to himself, but with every unexpected twist and turn imaginable—and unimaginable, he’s tested within an inch of his life by his inner demons and loved ones near and far.
Author Diana Black’s multilayered portrait of the human condition fuses her passion for character-driven fiction with her professional experience in hospice and foster care. Poignant passages and memorable characters draw on the reader’s empathy and explore the evocative nature at the core of us all.
RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 8, 2024!
Praise & Reviews:
“In Waiting for Gabe, talented writer Diana Black weaves together a moving story of tragedy, love, redemption, and an unexpected spiritual element that successfully asks us to suspend our disbelief and instead, believe in the possibility of intuition, premonition, and connection beyond death. Don’t many of us wish that the angels in our lives – those we’ve loved and lost – could guide us, communicate with us, help us feel better on our darkest days? In Waiting for Gabe, that hope is wonderfully woven throughout a beautifully written story and within characters you feel for, root for, cry for, and ultimately, cheer for. You will be thinking about the possibilities of heaven and the lives and emotions of these characters long after you finish reading the book.” – Ginger Emas, author, writer and speaker coach
“Diana Black’s Waiting for Gabe goes straight to the question that gives rise to art: How can we continue to embrace Life in the face of great suffering and loss? The novel offers no easy answers. But it does tell a beautiful tale of complicated people trying, and trying again, to let the great mystery crack open their hearts.” Matthew Sharpe, The Sleeping Father and You Were Wrong
“Waiting for Gabe is a story of the great unraveling done by grief, how it accrues in the body and ripples outwards to all it touches. But it is also a story of how hope can find us in the most impossible of ways. Stitching together life and afterlife, Black takes readers on an emotional journey both moving and unforgettable. –David Valdes. author of Spin Me Right Round
“This skillfully-written novel, by Diana Black, captures one man’s loss and his difficult journey of healing and redemption. Waiting For Gabe will bring a flood of tears and a ray of hope to the reader.”–Mary Cunningham, author of Andi Anna Jones Mysteries
“Black masterfully brings to the page all of the elements of grief—the real and the surreal—and molds them into a tender tale. Waiting for Gabe illuminates the endurance of the human heart.” Cathie Beck Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship
