Fallen Redemption #1
S.L. Saboviec
Fantasy
May 19, 2014
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Guardian angel Enael can’t seem to keep her human Wards in check. They’re the ones who choose their paths before reincarnating—she’s just there to help make sure they stay on track. But it’s not as easy as it might look.
When she meets and falls in love with charismatic Kaspen, a fellow Guardian, Enael’s feelings about Heaven, Hell, demons, and the life she’s known are turned upside down. Worse, angel-turned-demon Yasva, Kaspen’s former love, still holds him in her clutches. Even as Yasva works toward obtaining complete control of Earth, she taunts and haunts Kaspen’s and Enael’s lives.
Now Enael is forced to face her past (which is centuries long and bursting with secrets), her present (which is terribly unfulfilling and full of questions), and her future (which becomes more uncertain as time passes). Armed with a newfound love and fear of losing it all, she must figure out how to save the world—-and the angel she loves. Which side will win? Who will Kaspen choose? Will Heaven and Earth continue to exist, or will everything go to Hell?
Guest Post by S.L. Saboviec
Have You Lived Before?
One of the central ideas in the world of Guarding Angel is reincarnation. The main character, a guardian
angel named Enael, is responsible for guiding the spiritual growth of her Wards
during one of their lives. One woman is only on her second life, while another
man is on his sixty-fifth. Their common characteristic is having lived multiple
lives and the desire to experience certain things on their return to Earth.
Many Westerners (you, perhaps?) don’t believe in reincarnation because
the predominant religion here is Christianity. To believe in being born more
than once is heresy because it is contrary to the purpose of this life.
However, evidence suggests that past lives are not only a possibility, but they
shape who we are, what we fear, and even physical traits in our current lives.
Children That Know What They
Shouldn’t
My favorite type of past life stories are children who recall living
before. From the little girl who can describe the moment of her previous death
to the little boy who has an uncanny knowledge of details relating to his
previous profession, I love hearing them.
Children’s Past Lives: How PastLife Memories Affect Your Child by Carol Bowman is a fascinating read if
you want to delve in-depth into what two- to five-year-old children routinely
remember from previous lives. If you want some quick snippets of stories, the blog
article 10Amazing Things Kids Have Said About Past Lives is sure to give you goosebumps.
So How Did You Die?
One interesting belief about reincarnation is that a violent, sudden,
and unhappy death may cause birthmarks in future lives. As the Wikipedia article onbirthmarks states, “the exact cause of birthmarks is not known.” Not
definitive proof, of course, but speculation is interesting.
Mikhail Gorbachev’s port-wine stain on the top of his head is one of
the most famous birthmarks in the world. Is it just me or is it reminiscent of
two hatchet marks? Ouch.
I have one birthmark. It’s a one-inch oblong mark with jagged edges on
my inner thigh. I’ve contemplated how I could have died from a wound like that.
Since it’s over my femoral artery, I think that perhaps a few lives ago, I died
of an arrow or a bullet wound in the leg. Was I a Native American, running from
an enemy? Or a Civil War veteran who took a shrapnel hit and bled out on a
battle field? At this point, I’d rather not know, but it’s interesting to
speculate.
Your Irrational Fear Might Not Be
So Irrational After All
Another unpleasant aspect of having lived—and died—before is that our
souls remember what our conscious minds don’t.
Part of why reincarnation is on my mind (besides the release of my
book!) is that I recently had a past life reading. I asked the psychic a few
general questions, one of which was, “I have an irrational fear of dying a
certain way. Why is that?” Don’t get me wrong—I believe in psychic phenomena
and past lives, but I’m also well aware of leading questions, so I made this
one as general as possible.
The answer was, paraphrased: I had lived two lives where I had drowned.
The first was when I lived on an island. A tidal wave crashed over where I
lived, and many people died. The second was on a boat. The boat broke apart
during a storm and I drowned in the ocean.
When I asked the question, I wasn’t expecting that response. Instead, I
was thinking about how I can’t handle horror movies in which people get
eviscerated (even typing the word makes me shudder). That started when I was in
seventh grade and read Jurassic Park.
The scene where those spitting dinosaurs kill Dennis Nedry still haunts me.
But then I remembered: A few years ago, I developed an irrational fear
of water deeper than my shoulders. When I told my husband about the past life
reading, he said, “Yeah, I remember. We were at a hotel, and you were in the
deep end, and you said, ‘I can’t stand to be in here. I have to get out.’” And when
we went to Jamaica a year ago, I was ok being in the ocean because it was clear
and no more than shoulder-deep. But when I’d been to Puerto Rico years before
and the water was cloudy, I was terribly afraid.
I can’t tell you if I drowned in a past life. I can tell you that the
fear came upon me in recent years—growing up, I loved swimming pools. You
couldn’t keep me out of them. But one of the aspects of phobias caused by past
lives is that they may come upon a person when they reach the age at which they
died.
So Have You Lived Before?
Whatever you believe, the idea of living multiple times is a
fascinating one. It’s interesting to consider that we could be leaving a legacy
throughout history more than just creating offspring by living and dying multiple
times.
What about you? Got any interesting birthmarks you’d like to hazard a guess about? Any irrational fears
that cropped up recently? Have you talked to a child lately that knows way too
much about 1800’s London?
About the Author
Samantha
grew up in a small town in Iowa but now lives in the suburbs of Toronto with
her Canadian husband and expatriate cat. In her spare time, she reads,
writes, and thinks about reading and writing—along with playing the occasional
video game or eight.
Author links:
www.saboviec.com
Author links:
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