Author Description

Physicist Alexander Staalman made a terrible choice that ended the life of his own child. Now, 13 years later, and after the death of a close friend, he is haunted by dreams of a lost child on a lonely beach, a child he must save from a horrible fate. And in doing so he believes he can undo all that has happened, and win back the heart of his wife by returning her dead child to life: He can become his own absolution.So begins a journey into the very fabric of reality itself. Prepare yourself: as everything you thought you understood about the world is about to dissolve before your eyes.Quintessence is a love story. A story of sacrifice, redemption, and how the gossamer line between dreams and reality, the virtual and the real can dissolve into each other to create new landscapes. A place where the virtual can become the real.