The Commons, Book 1: The Journeyman

Three people on a doomed bus--a New York street kid, an Iraq War veteran, and her five-year-old special-needs son. Destination: the afterlife, which has been taken over by an all-powerful corporate raider. The result is an imaginary landscape of a broken America--stuck in time and overrun by the dreams and nightmares of its dead. Three unlikely heroes: their journeys separate but joined. One mission: to save forever. But first they must save themselves.