Mavis asked, "Am I a ghost again? I don't remember being a ghost, but I know I was." Do you believe in reincarnation?
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Mavis dies at the age of 88. She’s waiting at the Pearly Gates again, but this time she’s in a wedding dress. She doesn't know why she's young. "Am I a ghost, again?" she asked her angel, and Danson replied to her, "Yes, Mavis, you’re a ghost again, until you find the person you were destined to marry after Charlie died. You missed your lick. You didn’t fulfill your destiny as Mavis in this life. You need to go back as a ghost until you find James Windsor. Your earth angel Anna will help you. There’s a little girl who is waiting for you here in Heaven. Follow Mavis on her journey to find her second soul mate.Paranormal Romance
Excerpt
“From my big book, I call the person with the name of Mavis. Standing in line, I’m calling Mavis Brook.”
No one answered. There were thousands of people waiting in church pews, and some were waiting in a line in the long aisle below a curved staircase. It was hard to hear a name being called out by the man with long white hair, and a long white beard, who was wearing a gold robe with gold cords tied around his waist. Standing on billowing white clouds in the soft blue sky, he looked so regal.
“Again, calling the name of Mavis Brook from my big book. Mavis Brook from Louisiana. If you don’t answer on this call, you shall lose your turn to enter the Pearly Gates. This is St. Peter calling you. Last call.”
“I heard my name,” she told the lady she was speaking to in line. “I’m right here! I’ll be up the stairs in a minute. Please don’t call another name. I’m Mavis.”
Mavis was running to the front of the line in a long wedding dress and veil followed by a kaleidoscope of butterflies. Her white satin high heel shoes were glowing through the white clouds as she took each step up the stairs to get to St. Peter’s Gates. She was a young lady again.
“I made it. Here I am, St. Peter. I’m ready to be reincarnated into a rich family. Please sir, I don’t want to be poor again. I’ve been here several times before.”
“And what, may I ask, makes you think you can automatically be reincarnated at this moment? We have different realms of spiritual degrees that you must meet before you go back to Earth.” St. Peter’s voice was deep, but not scary. Mavis felt very relaxed in his presence.
“Sir, I see some things have changed on this level, but I’ve lived a good life this time around again and I’ve always been sent to be reincarnated when I asked. But, I must say that I have no idea what I’m doing here young and in this long wedding dress and a veil. I know I was 88 years old when I died. I think I slipped away in my sleep. But I lived in an old house. I don’t want to go back there.”
“Excuse me, Miss Mavis Brook,” St. Peter said as he looked at his big book on the podium.
“Yes sir. I’m Mavis. Oh, do I call you sir? Or maybe I should call you… your honor, or your majesty?”
“Sir, is fine,” St. Peter answered rolling his eyes. “I’m sure you were a real kick when you were 88, but you just can’t immediately go back to earth anymore. Things must be sorted out before you go back.”
“Sorted out? Like what? I don’t remember sorting out anything when I died before. Things have changed.”
“That’s not my department. Here is your ticket number. This will tell you where to go and what you need to do to get what you want in another life.”
“Okay, that shouldn’t be too hard. Thank you. Oh, by the way, is this Heaven, or did that change too?” Mavis smiled.
“To some it’s Heaven. To others it’s simply their spiritual place. Some call it Paradise and others Nirvana. Whatever you believe is fine with us. Stay positive.”
Mavis bowed to St. Peter and passed through the Pearly Gates. “Wow, every time I come here I always think this place is so awesome. I may want to stay here for a while. This is better than where I was before. I like it here. It’s Heaven to me.”
Gold tinsel hung overhead and there were little twinkling lights everywhere. People of all ages were walking and looking for the place that was written on their ticket, so instead of disrupting them to ask where she had to go, she did the same thing. On her ticket, it said, Aisle 88-Corridor M.
“Huh, I’ll keep walking around here until I see Aisle 88. I bet the 88 is for the age that I died and the M is for Mavis. I can’t remember everything after being away from here for 88 years, and so many things are different.”
She walked for an hour. Her feet were aching with her high heels on, so she took her shoes off and walked bare footed. Holding her shoes in one hand and her ticket in the other, she finally saw Aisle 88. There was another line, so she kept walking until she saw Corridor M. When she found M, this line was much shorter.
She began talking to the lady in front of her. “Hi, my name is Mavis. Have you been here before? I feel very comfortable here. I must be an old soul, because I know I was here a few times before, but this time I want to go back to earth… reborn into a very rich family. I don’t want to be poor again. It seems every time I go back… I’m poor.”
“Hi Mavis. No, I haven’t been here before. I have no idea what I’m doing here.” The lady began to cry.
“Oh, I can help you with this. See, you died on earth and now you will see where you need to go this time. But I don’t know what needs to be sorted out. I must have forgotten that part or it’s something new. Please don’t cry. Everything will be fine.”
“I died? I don’t remember dying before! Oh, my God. I died? How will my children know where I am? Where are all of my things?”
“Oh, my God. I can tell you are new at dying. Your children and all of your family already know you died. They are mourning. They are missing you, too. I know you’ve been to funerals. Right now, I bet they’re making your arrangements. You know how that works?”
“Yes… but I have things left that I wanted to do and more places I wanted to see.” She kept sobbing.
“You have nothing here but yourself. You must be a new soul to not remember being here before. I see you’re in a pretty pink nightgown. Were you 88 years old when you died?”
“Yes, I am 88 years old. How do you know this?”
“Because I have a ticket with Aisle 88, and I was 88 too when I died in my sleep.”
“Then what are you doing in your wedding dress and looking like you’re 20?”
“I was 20 when I got married. I don’t know what I’m doing in this wedding dress right now. I was married to Charlie, and I got married in a blue suit. That part has me stumped. I guess I’ll find out when I get into Corridor M.”
The lady was still crying. She was a mess of tears. She wondered why her husband didn’t meet her. That’s what she always read. People would be reunited with all of their loved ones when they die. Where was her mother and father, her sisters, and so many others? No one was there.
“Oh, if your loved ones didn’t reincarnate, you will meet them later. But it looks as though someone we know should be here to greet us, huh? But don’t worry, they’re up here somewhere. What’s your name?”
“My name is Mercy. I don’t know why my mother called me Mercy. Maybe being the eighth child had something to do with it. But, I was hoping to get another year so I could see my new great grandchild due anytime. Now that won’t happen.” She was still crying, but not as much.
“Oh, Mercy, that would have been something really special. Listen, why don’t you ask your angel to go back to earth as your great grandchild?”
“What? Can that happen?”
“Sure. Many babies are reincarnated from past family members who wanted to go back to the same family. That’s why they have strong bonds. The new baby already knows they are back with people they know. And then, some babies who are born into families they don’t know and sometimes they don’t have a strong bond with each other. They need to get to know their new family. Sometimes, it doesn’t work out well at all. Sometimes it does.”
“If I can go back to earth and be with my granddaughter again, I would be so happy. She’s a wonderful person. Oh, my God. And to be her child would be the most precious thing to me.” Mercy smiled for the first time. “I’ve read about this, but I didn’t think this could happen.”
Who’s the little girl? In the story,: I didn’t know who the little girl was on the cover. Both photos are of the author because I’m married to the author, but the story is about reincarnation and so inspirational. Life and death. It’s a mystery. Beb, well done.
Love you
Moi
The Ghost of Mavis had me intuited by wanting to know what it was about. Was it a mother that died with a young girl. There a mystery to it that you are pondering from the minute you start reading.
Mavis shows up at the Pearly gates in a wedding dress. Why and what reason. Mary Lynn Plaisance write the story well. This is her first book, that I have read. She leaves you guessing and pondering about a little girl. Who is this little girl and what is she waiting for? All we know at the beginning Mavis as died and is at the age of 88. What her angels tells her is, that she miss her lick and was to marry again.
Mavis is confused but are we as well? She also wondering why she wears wedding dress. She wants to go back to earth to be born into a rich family. When she goes to ask, her angels she's going back to earth on mission. To do that she will go back as a ghost and her angel Anna will help her until she finds this James Windsor.
You start to wonder what life is after death. Where do we go? Is it a belief that we reincarnate back to our family or do we stay in haven. That you will have to decide. Mary does a splendid job with this and talking about the afterlife. I would suggest if you enjoy paranormal fan or even a little mystery fan this is a good book to read. I recommend it to read.
The book is well written and few mistakes. I believe a may have caught like one mistake in the entire book. It was probably one that got the word misplaced not even spell wrong when editing, it wonderful. I hope to read more by Mary Lynn Plaisance.
Thank you so much for such a great review, Glenda. This story was hard for me to write, not because I didn't have a storyline, but because this is how I see death happening. I cried at some points in the book. I laughed. I felt amourous at other times. My feelings were all over the place, but it's what I believe happened to Mavis.
And, as for Sophia, she's still here. *LOL*** I had an urgency to finish this book and I don't know why that happened, but I'm sure it will be in my own BIG book when I arrive at the Pearly Gates.
If you're confused about what happens when you die, you're not alone. Even Mavis, the main character... And she'd been through it several times before--she'd always been placed with a poor family in the past and this, time, she was going to ask to be born into a rich family...
But that plan, that is already written in the book, according to the angel who was greeting her at the gates, indicated that she was going back... she should have married a second time, to James Windsor, after her first husband, Charlie, had died. Instead she had lived to the age of 88 and had once again said goodbye to the living...
In creating her fantasy, Plaisance has taken considerable liberty in exactly what happens upon death...Basically, heaven is the place where you go, either to stay, or to get reincarnated. In Mavis' case, however, her life plan had been unfulfilled as Mavis. In fact, as soon as Mavis had died, she had donned a wedding dress, appeared as a young woman about 25, and Danson, the angel, was explaining to Mavis that she needed to go back as a ghost and search out the man she was to have married... A guiding angel would help her during this time period and, once James would be found, Anna would handle the details at that time...
And the mystery begins...
Mavis awakes as the wife of James, married for a year, and we pick up the happily married couple at that time.
James has just become a full professor and Mavis is enrolled in business classes. Readers peek in on their lives which is still in the honeymoon stage...
Until one day Mavis mentions having a child... James adamantly refuses to consider becoming a father.
I draw your attention to the strangely intriguing book cover at this point... We were told that Mavis had the wedding gown on when she returned to heaven, but who was the little girl off to the side behind the bride? With a bit of serendipity, I had to look twice...and...more... at the picture... You see, she looks very much like me when I was young! Of course, I was immediately curious to find out more! Who is the little girl who appears throughout the book? First in a picture that Mavis carried. Next inside a haunted mirror at an antique store. Then in a family picture... And then in person...
She is Sophia and is waiting...
I was enchanted by the beautiful cover... I was amused at the confusion Mavis faced at 88 and arrives at heaven's gate in a wedding dress... And I was hooked as Mavis, without any knowledge, except intuition, works to solve the mystery of the little girl, who we learn is called Sophia... Even with clues along the way, I really was not prepared for what could be called a major traumatic ending...
This was my first book written by Mary Lynn Plaisance and my emotional responses were moving up and down continuously. Plaisance is a writer that is not afraid to fly her wings in her fantasies... In this book she's tackled death...and life... and gave her readers much to think about. Surely each of us has considered what we might believe happens, but this author pops up with options that are fun to watch as they happen, forces us to wonder about predestination, and in the end gives us a possible reality if there is a book of life for each of us... I found it intriguing, not quite believable, but a rare challenge to each of us as we look forward to where and how we might spend eternity...
Me? I was left wondering if Sophia was my great-great-grandmother! That's part of the options at death, to come back in the same family... LOL! Cool premise for a plot and the author carried the storyline through in a consistent, suspenseful manner that keeps readers interested... If you are open to exploring death and the hereafter, this is a fun read that I highly recommend.
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Love you
Moi
Mavis shows up at the Pearly gates in a wedding dress. Why and what reason. Mary Lynn Plaisance write the story well. This is her first book, that I have read. She leaves you guessing and pondering about a little girl. Who is this little girl and what is she waiting for? All we know at the beginning Mavis as died and is at the age of 88. What her angels tells her is, that she miss her lick and was to marry again.
Mavis is confused but are we as well? She also wondering why she wears wedding dress. She wants to go back to earth to be born into a rich family. When she goes to ask, her angels she's going back to earth on mission. To do that she will go back as a ghost and her angel Anna will help her until she finds this James Windsor.
You start to wonder what life is after death. Where do we go? Is it a belief that we reincarnate back to our family or do we stay in haven. That you will have to decide. Mary does a splendid job with this and talking about the afterlife. I would suggest if you enjoy paranormal fan or even a little mystery fan this is a good book to read. I recommend it to read.
The book is well written and few mistakes. I believe a may have caught like one mistake in the entire book. It was probably one that got the word misplaced not even spell wrong when editing, it wonderful. I hope to read more by Mary Lynn Plaisance.
And, as for Sophia, she's still here. *LOL*** I had an urgency to finish this book and I don't know why that happened, but I'm sure it will be in my own BIG book when I arrive at the Pearly Gates.
You're a wonderful reviewer. Thank you.
I appreciate you reading my work!
Mary Lynn Plaisance
But that plan, that is already written in the book, according to the angel who was greeting her at the gates, indicated that she was going back... she should have married a second time, to James Windsor, after her first husband, Charlie, had died. Instead she had lived to the age of 88 and had once again said goodbye to the living...
In creating her fantasy, Plaisance has taken considerable liberty in exactly what happens upon death...Basically, heaven is the place where you go, either to stay, or to get reincarnated. In Mavis' case, however, her life plan had been unfulfilled as Mavis. In fact, as soon as Mavis had died, she had donned a wedding dress, appeared as a young woman about 25, and Danson, the angel, was explaining to Mavis that she needed to go back as a ghost and search out the man she was to have married... A guiding angel would help her during this time period and, once James would be found, Anna would handle the details at that time...
And the mystery begins...
Mavis awakes as the wife of James, married for a year, and we pick up the happily married couple at that time.
James has just become a full professor and Mavis is enrolled in business classes. Readers peek in on their lives which is still in the honeymoon stage...
Until one day Mavis mentions having a child... James adamantly refuses to consider becoming a father.
I draw your attention to the strangely intriguing book cover at this point... We were told that Mavis had the wedding gown on when she returned to heaven, but who was the little girl off to the side behind the bride? With a bit of serendipity, I had to look twice...and...more... at the picture... You see, she looks very much like me when I was young! Of course, I was immediately curious to find out more! Who is the little girl who appears throughout the book? First in a picture that Mavis carried. Next inside a haunted mirror at an antique store. Then in a family picture... And then in person...
She is Sophia and is waiting...
I was enchanted by the beautiful cover... I was amused at the confusion Mavis faced at 88 and arrives at heaven's gate in a wedding dress... And I was hooked as Mavis, without any knowledge, except intuition, works to solve the mystery of the little girl, who we learn is called Sophia... Even with clues along the way, I really was not prepared for what could be called a major traumatic ending...
This was my first book written by Mary Lynn Plaisance and my emotional responses were moving up and down continuously. Plaisance is a writer that is not afraid to fly her wings in her fantasies... In this book she's tackled death...and life... and gave her readers much to think about. Surely each of us has considered what we might believe happens, but this author pops up with options that are fun to watch as they happen, forces us to wonder about predestination, and in the end gives us a possible reality if there is a book of life for each of us... I found it intriguing, not quite believable, but a rare challenge to each of us as we look forward to where and how we might spend eternity...
Me? I was left wondering if Sophia was my great-great-grandmother! That's part of the options at death, to come back in the same family... LOL! Cool premise for a plot and the author carried the storyline through in a consistent, suspenseful manner that keeps readers interested... If you are open to exploring death and the hereafter, this is a fun read that I highly recommend.
GABixlerReviews
Paperback received from
Authors Den