In the end I didn’t feel preached to at all, but I did have a completely different perspective on what the afterlife might be like. I was moved to tears in more than one story. I was transported throughout the world and had vivid images of the settings of all the stories. Waters has spent countless hours researching the eras she writes about. Her soul has learned painful lessons on love and sacrifice from every experience and made her who she is now, but is she done? What more could she possibly need to know before reuniting with the ones she loves in eternal bliss? We saw 4 incarnations of her soul and know that there are at least 5 as she is now Maya, but we learn nothing of her life as Maya. Through a series of 4 short stories we discover that Maya’s soul has been a priest, a slave, a mother and a well-to-do wife. To see the journey of a soul through time and continents was beautiful. Like understand what her lessons to learn have been and truly understand them. She meets her spirit guide who explains to her that she’s got a couple things she needs to do first.

Maya has arrived at the pearly gates to discover that she’s not anywhere NEAR where she thought she was. I started reading at 9:00 pm and didn’t put the book down til I was finished at 4:00 am. I’m wary of things that are too “preachy” but this book is probably the furthest thing from that. I wasn’t sure about reading a book about Angels and heaven. This was an amazing journey that I literally couldn’t put down. Will she be forced to leave the tranquility of heaven to survive yet another painful and tumultuous life? Or worse, accept the bitter reality of having to go back alone? Maya plunges warily into her turbulent pasts as a sociopathic High Priest in ancient Egypt an independent mother protecting a dangerous secret in glorious Sparta an Irish boy kidnapped and enslaved by Vikings and a doctor’s wife forced to make an ethical stand in plague-ridden England.Īll the while, Maya yearns to be with those she cares about most and worries that she hasn’t learned all of heaven’s most vital lessons. Zachariah, her faithful spirit guide, explains the rules of the dead: in order to regain complete awareness and reunite with loved ones all souls must review their previous lives. Maya’s shocked to discover it’s not the heaven she imagined in fact, a life of adventure begins the moment you die. That way you can keep it nearby as you read. I also want to direct you to my website where you can download and print out the charts that can be difficult to read on electronic devices (). Each book in the series wraps up the conflict within the book, but the overall story continues on to the next book. *Special note: This is a true series, meaning that it is not a stand alone.

Immortal Sacrifice by Renae Wright