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“In another life, she was my forever.”
An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby.
He hires a nanny. She’s young, but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the grocery store.
Over time, he discovers she knows things about him—things that happened before she was born—like a hidden scar on his head, his favorite pizza, and how he cheated on a high school Spanish test.
She speaks familiar words and shares haunting memories that take him back to over two decades earlier when he lost his best friend in a tragic accident.
“I’m afraid of what’s going to happen when you realize I’m not her.”
Transcend is a sexy, mind-bending journey that uncovers possibilities, challenges beliefs, and begets the age-old question: is there life after death?
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Review:
4.25 stars
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This was a good book! This book is book one in the Transcend duet. It is very mysterious and we aren't sure what is going on throughout the book.
This is Swayze's story. She is twenty-one year old woman who is dating a really great guy, Griffin (aka Grocery Store Guy, because she met him at the grocery store). But her life changes dramatically when she meets Nate in the waiting room at her shrink's office. When she meets Nate, unexplainably, she knows him. She knows everything about him and all of his memories going back to early childhood. He is a 35 year old man. There is no way she could know all of these things about him from before she was even born. She is confused, thinking she knows him somehow, but he doesn't know her. So she tries to shrug off their meeting and go on. But she arrives to interview for a job as a nanny for an infant baby, only to discover it is Nate's house. Nate is a single father whose wife died in childbirth. Swayze is confused by her memories, but she tries to ignore them, and she gets the job. As she babysits for Nate's baby, strange things happen. Her memories continue and grow stronger until she can't help but tell Nate about them. He is skeptical at first, but as time goes on, he starts to think something else is happening. Nate thinks that Swayze is reincarnated from his childhood best friend and first love, Daisy, who died when he was fourteen. Nothing is made clear and we are left with so many questions. Everything is mysterious and unpredictable. Hopefully all will be made clear in book two of the duet, Epoch.
I liked all three of the main characters- Nate, Griffin and Swayze. This is kind of a love triangle, but kind of not. Swayze really loves her boyfriend Griffin with her whole heart and sees forever with him, but she feels a strong connection and friendship to Nate. Her relationship with Griff is a young, angsty one. They both have some immature moments. But I liked them both and don't want to see either of them hurt. Nothing has happened romantically between Nate and Swayze, but they are growing closer. She knows everything about him and I can see how that would develop into more. Nate sees his first love, Daisy, in Swayze, and I'm afraid he can't see and appreciate her for herself. Swayze adores Nate's baby, Morgan. Her memories make her feel things for Nate that the bearer of the memories felt. We are left questioning if reincarnation is possible, but it is too soon to tell what is going on.
This book does end on a cliffhanger, but not one that I was expecting. As a writer, Ms. Ann is not afraid to shake things up, and even kill off main characters in some of her books, so I was on edge throughout the book. Everyone survives, but I can't even imagine what is in store for us in Epoch and how everything will be wrapped up into an HEA for Swayze. Overall, this was an engrossing, mysterious, suspenseful, angsty, emotional and funny read! I was totally sucked into the story and I can not wait for Epoch!
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About Jewel E. Ann
Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.
With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.
After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.
When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.
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