"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me." When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed--a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back. Colton, not yet

Crystal McVea teams up with New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski to pen Waking Up in Heaven, a tale of hope, forgiveness, and salvation. Crystal is a wife, mother, Bible Belt schoolteacher, and longtime skeptic of the existence of God. While awaiting surgery, she goes into full respiratory arrest, with the doctors unable to revive her for nine minutes—minutes Crystal spent in heaven.