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atlantis, Broken World, Ever After, goddess, past lives, Pride and Prejudice, reincarnation, Sale, thirteen
Hello, lovelies.
I wanted to talk about Ria. Oh, Ria. That poor girl had no chance at a normal life. Between her abnormal birth, sharing a soul with her mother, and being the reincarnation of the Atlantean goddess, Meleia, it’s no wonder Ria’s got a shit storm to work through.
With that in mind, I wanted to give y’all a peek at Ria’s past lives as they are a major part of her story. So here is the quick list:
Meleia—goddess of chaos (8100 BCE)
Isura—Mesopotamia (5512 BCE)
Bianca—Italy (4027 BCE)
Niabi—Japan (1377BCE)
Colista—Greece (184 CE)
Sura—Germany (481 CE)
Benny—Spanish (714 CE)
Valarie—French (933 CE)
Zyanya—China (1212 CE)
Sophia—Ireland (1416 CE)
Layla—Scotland (1632 CE)
Dashay—Jamaica (1799 CE)
Tatiana—America (1969 CE)
It’s a long list. Thirteen past lives in all, which is linked to the chaos from her original form, or maybe because thirteen is an unlucky number. Either way, it’s my favorite. (I’m a serious lover of Friday the thirteenth—the day, not the movies. Although…)
Now, the author honesty. I don’t know much more about these women than I’ve created them in the books. Well, with a few exceptions. Ria’s mother, Tatiana, is forming herself in my fire story, featuring Ria’s father. I know a bit more about Bianca and Colista and Layla than I’ve let y’all in on.
I feel as though Layla is my most interesting of the women—the most independent and vulnerable. Maybe it’s because she reminds me a bit of Cinderella—of Drew Barrymore’s version in Ever After—and of Lizzie from Pride & Prejudice. She takes on her role as the eldest-daughter-turned-mother when her parents died in the Great Plague of Edinburgh along with two of her siblings.
At thirteen, she had to navigate a devastated city to feed her three remaining brothers and sisters. And for the next four years, she struggles to do so every day, until she meets a man who eventually takes care of her…but he vanishes a decade later.
If you haven’t guessed it, and maybe you haven’t because you don’t know Ria’s story, but that man was Gene (whom I like to think of as my Mr. Darcy), and Layla is the spitfire that pops up when the two of them are fighting.
This is because of the fire in Layla from the life she was dealt and her ability to adapt. Ria has a lot of the same characteristics but could learn a lot from Layla still.
Before I turn this into some twisted circle of babbling, let me wrap this up.
Want to know more about these past life connections? Feel free to ask me questions!
And check out the first novel in my series, it’s on sale for 99 cents to celebrate my upcoming installment in the series on May 9th.
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