Liz still has difficulty accepting her death, so she decides that she will be “Released” back to Earth early. The two slowly begin to form a romantic relationship when a person from Owen’s past makes an unexpected appearance in Elsewhere. His job is to keep Elsewhere citizens away from the Well, a place where the dead can communicate with the living. While Liz slowly begins adjusting to life in Elsewhere, she meets a 17-year-old boy named Owen. When she finds the driver of the cab and learns about his personality and why he never turned himself in, Liz sympathizes with the cab driver and ultimately forgives him. Liz is also determined to find the cab that hit her in the accident. She spends hours watching her family and friends cope with her death, and even her own funeral take place. Liz soon becomes obsessed with visiting the Observation Desks in Elsewhere, which act as a window to the living. She must live in Elsewhere for fifteen years only to become a baby again and be sent back to Earth as a newborn.

Liz will never have a sweet sixteen, never get married, never have kids, never see her brother grow up, and never go to college. Liz is very startled and upset by this new world, and the truth finally begins to hit her. Betty is now in her thirties, and looks more like a mother than a grandmother. Upon arrival, Liz meets her maternal grandmother, Betty, who died of breast cancer before Liz was born. One could see new paintings by Picasso in the museum, or set up an appointment with Marilyn Monroe’s psychiatrist office. This means that one lives their life backwards, starting from the age the person died. It looks just like Earth, only time moves backwards instead of forwards. The boat is destined to a place called Elsewhere.

At first she believes this is a dream, but soon realizes that she is dead after feeling the stitches on the back of her head. However, Liz wakes up moments later on a boat named the SS Nile, feeling perfectly alive. Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is killed when her bike collides with an oncoming taxi.

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