Casey Jones is too cool for school until he falls into a decadent madness, following a traumatic mushroom trip. As his home life falls apart, he finds a new family of ravers at a club called Afterlife. Seduced by the allure of drugs and women, Casey has an experience wherein he becomes obsessed with something deeper- the search for the Biblical fruit of knowledge and the meaning of life, convinced his discovery will revolutionize life on Earth and return mankind to Eden. But things at Afterlife are not what they seem to be. Are the people Casey meets more than meets the eye? Or is he truly succumbing to madness? Afterlife, by Buckley Rue, is a story of individual and global transformation which explores the depths of mental illness, religion, life, death, and the American way of life, laying down a prophecy with the potential to reshape life as we know it.