The Last Stage of Grief A Novel Author:Brian Bell Ben Wardell is a sheltered, eighteen-year-old high school graduate and recent college drop-out; a tortured soul, old for his age, and like thousands of other young adults across America: a victim of this era.Hating his job, feeling bored, outside himself and out of touch with a seemingly indifferent world, he crosses over into another world; a w... more »orld he sees as if for the first time through the eyes of a goddess; a beautiful, dark and mysterious young woman named Eve. Some deep truths begins to resonate inside Ben about his life, about his past, and about his future; as he explores the hard-edge, pseudo-romantic world of dance clubs, after hours parties and drugs; he falls in love; possessed by and obsessed with Cora, a beautiful, promiscuous and elusive aspiring musician with twenty-four years of wisdom and secrets to share with him.« less