If you have ever watched the movie Cloud Atlas, you will have struggled to keep up with the reincarnated characters and their separate journeys in each life. For example, Tim Hanks plays these multiple roles: a doctor, a hotel manager, a physicist, a roughneck author, an actor, a cowardly goatherd and a representative of the last vestiges of advanced civilization who reside on an off-world colony. Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent also take on multiple roles adding to the complexity of the stories set in timelines from 1800’s to 2144. It is a movie you need to watch several times to really understand it.

When I decided to write my own reincarnated romance novel, The Twesome Loop, I had to decide on the time periods and how many characters would actually reincarnate. To achieve the similarities of these characters in each of their lives I needed certain personality traits to ‘echo’ in each life. Then it was a matter of writing two time periods, which followed similar paths for each character and their relationships chapter upon chapter.

Once I wrote the whole story, I printed it out, then laid out each chapter across the living room floor. Then took time to arrange them into a sequence with each time period echoing the other. As you can imagine this was a complex task!

Although, there are other characters within the story these are the main ‘reincarnated’ souls and their journeys.

Eighteenth century William Folkes is an older rich, egotistical and depraved man, using his powerful position in society to take what he wants. In the twentieth century, Brett Shaw is a gold digger, womaniser, and morally corrupt.

Folkes arranges to marry a young woman, Gabriella, in exchange for high society favours for her father. She is innocence and helpless to refuse this marriage. Twentieth century Melissa Shaw is a spinster with a good inheritance, she is Brett’s target for a good life for himself.

William’s younger brother, Arthur and Gabriella fall in love and are thwarted by William until they conceive a plan. Twentieth century Gerald Conway-Smythe is a successful business man with a obsessive interest in reincarnation. A chance encounter with Melissa sparks a past life link.

Eighteenth century Vessy is a ‘special’ servant to William and sates his depraved behaviour, although she has a plan of her own. Twentieth century Nancy Beecham uses her rich parents to live comfortably, while pretending to search for the perfect career, but indulges her appetites as a cam girl.

As you can see the characters past and present have similarities, it is these that allows you, dear readers, to identify whose who. I hope you will enjoy the story and leave a review once you have read The Twesome Loop.

If the book is ever made into a movie it is these four characters who will be highlighted.