The release date for the English version of 'One Door Away from Heaven' by
Dean Koontz is Oct 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Michelina Bellsong embarks on an incredible journey that will alter her forever, beginning in a dusty trailer park on the outside of the California dream. In a desperate attempt to find Leilani, a nine-year-old child she has fallen in love with despite her disability, she will travel across America. Leilani has vanished, as has her drug-addled mother and her dangerous stepfather, Preston Maddoc, a fervent UFO investigator. By the time Leilani is 10, Maddoc says, aliens will either cure her or whisk her away to a better life.
Leilani claims that her crippled elder brother has already "gone to the stars." Now that Leilani's ninth birthday is drawing near, Micky is certain that, should she not locate her, the child would pass away shortly. Alone and terrified, she is forced to live for something greater than herself for the first time and faces Preston Maddoc, a formidable and crafty opponent. An exhausted investigator is drawn to her side by her bravery and devotion. A homeless dog and a motherless youngster set off on an even more amazing voyage hundreds of miles away. They all have extreme danger, shocking revelations, and routes that go from terrifying darkness to surprising light ahead of them.