What Lies Between by B.N. Toler

What Lies Between
Where One Goes #2

B.N. Toler
Contemporary/Paranormal Romance
Published in 2018 (ARC review)

H/h - Ike and George McDermott/Charlotte McDermott
Setting: Present time.

Read in October, 2018.

My rating:

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What Lies Between is book 2 of B.N. Toler’s Where One Goes series; one that was most anticipated by many of us who loved book 1, Where One Goes. It was one of my favorite reads of 2015 and a 5 stars at that. B.N. Toler was a new to me author and she blew my mind with her storytelling. I was pretty sad that there won’t be a sequel to the story when it felt like it needed a one badly. In that sense, this is a very lovely surprise that I didn’t expect to see but was extremely happy nonetheless to see it becoming a reality.

As usual with my reviews, I’ll begin with a bit of backstory. Where One Goes is narrated from multiple first POVs of the main protagonists; 3 of them. But it begins with Charlotte, our h, trying to help out one last soul before she became of them. Charlotte had a lovely childhood until a few years ago when a tragic accident that changed everything. One moment of impulsive decision took the life of her elder brother Axel and left her badly injured. As she was recovering from her near fatal injury, Charlotte found out the most astonishing thing that had ever happened to her!  She could see spirits; souls in limbo that needed help in crossing over. Since she wasn’t used to it, Charlotte needed help alongside the love and support of her parents in gradually becoming used to with her new ‘gift’. However, her strictly religious parents couldn’t connect with her ‘issues’, thinking she’s become mentally unstable and their relationship deteriorated to a point that she was told simply to leave. Just go away , was all she got. Ever since then Charlotte has been on her own, trying to eke out a life herself and doing what she was meant to be doing; helping out souls that needed her help.

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What Lies Between

B.N. Toler

(Where One Goes #2)

Published: October 10, 2018

At the core of it, life is a test—an opportunity to prove who we are; what we’re really made of. Short as it was, I’d like to think I lived my life well, that when people remember Ike McDermott, they remember he was a good man. When I look back, I’m proud of who I was.

Leaving behind the woman I loved was the hardest thing I’d ever done, and finding peace with the knowledge she was building a life with my brother after I moved on took a strength I didn’t know I had. But George and Charlotte were still alive. I wasn’t. Together, they forged on, and I was okay with that because I knew, one day, Charlotte and I would be reunited.

One day she would be mine.

All I had to do was wait.

Time works differently in the afterlife. Without any ties to the living, it doesn’t so much as slow, but stop altogether. There is no worrying about what is to come, there is only what is.

I didn’t know if four days, or fifty years had passed when I found Charlotte by our tree in my corner of the other side. All I knew was she was here, and I would never have to let her go. I finally had my reward for the life I’d lived.

But I’d soon learn Fate had other plans, and everything I believed about who I was would be tested once again. Only this time, I wasn’t so sure I could stay strong.

This time, I wasn’t sure I could be a good man.

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Where One Goes by B.N. Toler

Where One Goes

B.N. Toler
Contemporary Romance/Paranormal
Published in 2015

H/h - Ike and George McDermott/Charlotte Acres
Setting: Present time.

Read in March, 2015.

My rating:

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Oh My God! What a story! Where do I start?! I don’t even know if I can even express myself eloquently when it comes to BN Toler’s Where One Goes! When I started this book, I didn’t know what to expect. The author was a new-to-me but the blurb sounded so very intriguing that I had to read it. So glad that I did!

Have you ever wondered where a soul goes when it crosses over? Or, have you ever imagined yourself falling in love with two people, at the same time, when one of them is just waiting to crossover into that unknown?

Just as me and you, Charlotte has never imagined any of these things happening to her. She was a regular kid with a loving family of parents and an elder brother, going to school, then college, with the prospect of a better life... until one day, when everything changed in the blink of an eye. She just got in the same college as her brother, Axel; a brother who is as loving and supportive, who had never minded her trailing his shadows all through her childhood. Even in college he was her guardian angel. A drunken night and an accident take everything away from Charlotte, though she had no idea that Axel, who was with her, had passed away. How could she when, in her drug-induced, fevered dreams she saw her parents... and Axel, standing at her bedside, giving her the strength she needed to recover from the grave injury? Was she awake, had she dreamed of him? Charlotte couldn’t understand when she finally came to and learned of the passing of her beloved brother.