To Have and To Hold, To Love and To Kill:

An Agreement of Souls

by

Amy Sampson-Cutler

Suspenseful tale of past lives and past promises seeking fulfillment in the present.

To Have and To Hold, To Love and To Kill: An Agreement of Souls by Amy Sampson-Cutler is the suspenseful tale of past lives and past promises seeking fulfillment in the now. When Julie has a car accident that takes her own life and that of an innocent young boy, she is inconsolable from guilt and grief, and coerces her soulmate, James, into a promise to seek her out in their next incarnation and kill her. Of course, neither one has a conscious memory of their unholy agreement when they are reborn. Julie, now Nikki, has lived a tragic life of loss, drinking, drugs, and prostitution. But through the intervention of a special Narcotics Anonymous sponsor and a psychic medium, she uncovers her past lives, the terrible thing she asked of James, and the danger she now faces; and James, an unknown stranger, is out there somewhere with a contract to fulfill. 

Nikki's story is a suspenseful one with loads of creepy paranormal aspects. She had sunk so low in this life and finally had come so far in getting her life back on track, I wondered if, maybe, the tragedies she'd endured would serve to fulfill the agreement she'd forced on James. She starts out as such a miserable person; her transformation was miraculous. I found myself completely in her corner and rooting for her to come up with an alternative resolution. 

The story's tension builds as Nikki encounters her own personal losses and begins to realize how well camouflaged James and his threats are. The scenes with Melissa channeling the spirits of the dead were especially intense. Furthermore, there are some truly unexpected twists and turns in the plot that left me gasping with surprise, and the ending is not at all what I anticipated. Well done. 

I recommend TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, TO LOVE AND TO KILL to readers of paranormal thrillers and suspense. 

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advance Review Copy through WOW! Women On Writing Book Tours.