Don't Fear The Reaper, Pt. II

By The Cunning Linguist

She's been waiting eighty years for this morning. And she isn't afraid.
At four in the morning on November 19, 2026, eighty-five-year-old Amanda Moreland wakes up with the kind of clarity that only arrives once. She's been expecting this moment since she was six. She's not afraid.

Neither, it turns out, is the person sitting in the chair beside her bed.

The Epic Conclusion to an Unforgettable Lifelong Bond
Don't Fear the Reaper, Pt. II is the conclusion of a story that began in 1947, when a six-year-old girl named Amanda McKie looked across a church pew at Death-who had never been seen before, never been named before-and gave him one.

She called him James. He's been James ever since.

Inside Part II:
Spanning forty-six years of love, silence, grief, and resilience, this final volume follows:

Amanda's Journey: Her life as a principal, a mother, and a woman who stops speaking to James for a full decade after Valentine's Day 2001-only to find her way back to him anyway.

A New Generation: Lamont, his wife, Phoebe, and their daughter, Lauren-who grows up with her great-grandmother's uncanny quality of attention, unaware of the immense weight she has inherited.

The Soul of Newark: A city defined by its profound losses, its quiet rebuilds, and its stubborn insistence on persisting through history.

And it ends the way everything in this story must: with Amanda Moreland telling the truth, and James carrying it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H915X9WJ
• ISBN13: 9798187481781
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"