Time on the Anvil

In 1980, Joyce Matthews is a teenager who is battling leukemia. With too much pain and too little relief, she turns to God in prayer, hoping to get some answers for why she got sick, why God won't help her, and what his purpose is for her. She receives no answers, but does find a friend in a hospital lab tech. He can provide no easy answers to her questions, but will eventually help her as her body weakens and then fails.Joyce enters Heaven, but God still has work for her to do. He...
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In 1980, Joyce Matthews is a teenager who is battling leukemia. With too much pain and too little relief, she turns to God in prayer, hoping to get some answers for why she got sick, why God won't help her, and what his purpose is for her. She receives no answers, but does find a friend in a hospital lab tech. He can provide no easy answers to her questions, but will eventually help her as her body weakens and then fails.Joyce enters Heaven, but God still has work for her to do. He sends her back to the physical world as a powerful spirit along with Gelos, the Greek god of laughter. Gradually she realizes that they have been sent forward in time fifty years, to 2030. The pair are sent to New York City and, through simple luck, find themselves working at a club for some of the wealthiest people on Earth. Joyce is gradually drawn into their world and watches while the sins of greed, lust and megalomania corrupt their lives. She becomes a witness as this group of plutocrats struggle against each other for the control of the world's economy, and learns about the power of sin and the influence of supernatural forces.