The Girl Who Saw Heaven

A remarkable true story of one child's survival and transcendence after surviving a super tornado, and her amazing journey into the afterlife.

When Ari Hallmark was six years old, her family was caught in a powerful tornado in their hometown of Arab, Alabama. On the day of the storm, the Hallmarks were putting the finishing touches inside their new home, which Ari's father, Shane, had built with his own two hands. That day Shane Hallmark got a call from his mother. She was afraid she wouldn't be able to carry the twin toddlers, Ari's cousins, into the storm shelter if the storm got as bad as the meteorologist warned. Concerned, Shane decided to head straight for his childhood home. Refusing to let him go alone, Ari and her mother came with him.

When they arrived, the storm was right on their tail. Ari and her relatives huddled in the bathroom to wait out the storm. After the Category 4 tornado passed through the home Ari's family was killed. Everything for miles was flattened. A neighbor who also survived the storm found Ari's unconscious and battered body thirty yards from the house. When she regains consciousness in a hospital Ari recounts the extraordinary story of accompanying her family to heaven. Ari is now a high school senior determined to share this hopeful message with the world: you will see your loved ones again.

Beyond the Storm adds to the cannon of remarkable near-death experiences, along with stories of people who follow their loved ones briefly to the afterlife. This book will leave you less terrified of death and more hopeful about what lies beyond.