Alison Strobel Violette, Between

Violette Between

Alison Strobel

Waterbrook, May 2006, $9.99, 272 pp.

ISBN: 1578567947

Violette was once a highly regarded artist who lived life with lan and loved her Saul with her soul. When Saul suddenly died, Violette died too. She stopped painting and lost her gusto for life.

Violette meets psychiatrist Christian, a widow, who still mourns the loss of his wife though several years have passed. Still he and Violette begin seeing one another and help each other return to the world of the living. However, tragedy strikes again. Christian finds Violette crumbled on the floor near a ladder in his waiting room, which she was painting to look like a New York rooftop restaurant. While she resides in a coma with no other physical injuries, he holds her hand and tells her he loves her and needs to come back. Meanwhile Violette is on a different journey to a place where she meets Saul. Will she choose to remain with her beloved first love or go back to her second love?

VIOLETTE BETWEEN is a powerful character study of a nice woman who has finally rebounded from the trauma of the death of a beloved with a new love (though she will always cherish her Saul) only to have tragedy strike again. The story line follows Violette as she is in an in between station either heading to an afterlife with Saul or coming back to this life with Christian. Alison Strobel provides a poignant tale that Christian readers will appreciate as heaven sounds like a complex place when one considers eternal relationships.

Harriet Klausner