Forsake All Others — Jennifer Crowfoot

Death took their lives but he didn't take away Reece and Lillian's love.After losing their lives in a terrible accident, Lillian woke up in the family home, where she continued to live her life as she had always done. Although, a constant worry ate at her, niggled at her. Where were her husband and children?Her memories wouldn't reveal any truths of their whereabouts. It gave up no secrets.The very process that kept her sane and trauma free, also kept her as a captive in the dark. A ghost still living with the love of her life embedded in her heart.She was alone in a new world she didn't understand, while pining for her lost love and her missing children.Reece reincarnated and grew up to eventually remarry and have more children, all without remembering his previous life. Or his previous love.Until...The fateful day he brought his first home. It was a dump. Full of retro furniture and female bullshit that had never been cleaned out. It was old, had no electricity or hot water and was infested with bugs and ants.Unbeknown to him, he'd purchased his previous life's family home and it came with a permanent resident - his first wife, Lillian.Was it...Fate?An unfurling ribbon from his past that he'd followed without realising it?A gift from the Heavens?A chance at second chance love?Lillian knew the love of her life instantly, but it took Reece a little more time to catch on to the universe's great plan.After a shaky start, and after some frightening recollections of his last night on earth, Reece came to the realisation, that her knew her. That they were cosmically entangled in a great and passionate love.With a wife who drank heavily and despised him, Reece spent more and more time at the house.With Lillian.As Fate had planned, he fell head over heels for her again and they started up a love affair that would burn the world down if it escaped the bubble they were enclosed in.Moving into the new house brought with it many challenges, the most crucial one being jealousy.The first wife jealous of the second wife.And fear.The fear you feel when you think you see something in a room you're supposedly alone in.This is all taking place around an oblivious Reece who's struggling with serious health battles of his own and the sudden wake-up call that the woman he's fallen for, is the ghost of his first wife.And she wants him back in her arms.She wants to claim back the husband that Death stole from her so many years ago