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For as long as Haven Moore can remember, she’s had visions about a past life as a girl named Constance who died in a fire. As a result, she’s an outcast in the small town of Snope City, Tennessee. Her grandmother even thinks she’s possessed by a demon. When her grandmother tries to keep her prisoner in her own bedroom, Haven decides that it’s time to head to New York and look for a man named Iain Morrow, who used to be her fiancé, Ethan, in a previous life. But when she finds him, she’s not sure whether he’s her eternal love or the man who murdered her in another existence.
Iain Morrow is a notorious playboy who lives on the edge. When he spots Haven outside a popular nightclub, he immediately recognizes her as Constance, the woman he keeps searching for from one life to another. Unlike Haven, he can remember all of his past lives. As he attempts to stay ahead of the Ouroboros Society—an organization that helps people remember past lives but has taken a corrupt turn—and keep himself from being arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, he tries to make Haven trust him. But that’s not easy when she keeps catching him in lies that he feels are necessary to keep her alive.
The Eternal Ones will make you want to believe in the kind of eternal love where couples find each other from one life to the next. It’s a beautiful fairytale if you believe in such things. It also wants you to believe in love at first sight. Haven may have been drawn to Iain, but I didn’t believe that it was love at first sight. It seemed more like a means to get her out of Snope City and away from her batty grandmother.
If the story had played out in Snope City, Tennessee, I think it would have made a much better read. There’s just something about the mountains of Tennessee that can add a creepy element to any story. In Tennessee, at least there were interesting characters—like Haven’s creepy grandmother, her gay friend, Beau, and a young girl who goes to a snake-handling church and can see the future. But instead of setting the action there, author Kirsten Miller moves the tale into New York City, where everything feels cold and lifeless.
Still, The Eternal Ones offers a different spin on the same old romance, mixing it with danger and a smidgen of mystery. Even if you’re a bit cynical where romance is concerned (like I am), you’ll still get caught up in the plot. You too, will wonder whether Haven’s eternal love actually did murder her—and the truth might just surprise you.
