Beyond the Veil

9,On a glorious sunlit afternoon in New York City, Gwen Winter prepares for her wedding, exuberant with the promise of her future with Nas Zia, the man of her dreams. Her heart races unbridled, outpaced only by the overwhelming emotions slicing through her. Flickering images of times spent with Nas spool past her mind's eye like frames of celluloid movie film. Outside, a church bell clangs, hammering away at Gwen's veneer until it shatters and all the warnings she'd refused to accept come crashing down around her. Nas is everything she's ever wanted and at the same time everything she's been told she can never have. A final knell rips through her proclaiming that she's been forsaken and what was supposed to be the best day of her life is no more than a ghastly farce.