Book Review: Bound to Happen ~ Nighttime Reading Center

January 26, 2026

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Book Review: Bound to Happen

Book Title: Bound To Happen

Author: Annie R McEwen

Publisher: Harbor Lane Books, LLC.

Publisher Date: February 4, 2025 (386 Pages, Paperback)

Genres: Mystery, Time Travel, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance

Series: Bound #2

The women in her family have a history of falling in love with ghosts. Aoife’s positive she’s the exception to the rule.
She’s wrong.

Aoife ‘Fee’ Gowdie is exploring a derelict London music hall when she discovers a seventeenth century theatre below. The problem? It’s got a seventeenth century ghost in it. And he has a pet—Fee’s mouse, the one she buried that morning.

Gilbert ‘Gil’ Sorley—orphan, thief, actor, playwright—was born in 1613 and died… The jury’s still out on that. He remembers the moment. The fight, the blade, the blood. It’s been a gray wasteland since then. Until the miracle of her. And the mouse.

The old theatre has protected Gil for centuries, but now it’s slated for demolition. To stop time and death, Fee and Gil have nothing except desperate, impossible love. Is it enough?

BOUND TO HAPPEN by Annie R McEwen is perfect for fans of Discovery of Witches and Practical Magic, the A Stitch in Time books, Ghost, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Disclaimer: I bought this book, and this is my own honest review

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We meet up with Fee. She is about studying or researching, not playing—her flatmates help her bury her mouse.

I am curious about her parents and, if she has any, her siblings. Suppose this is the same Fee that is mentioned at the end of book one. Her name is Aoife, but friends call her "Fee". Wonder what she's doing in London and who she works for.

We meet Gil, and we see his point of view. He seems interested in a woman who was on stage. What happened to him? What caused his death and exile to a theater in London? He has come alive this year when an ung woman came to visit and explore the stage.

Fee thinks she can pass on her leaking as if it were a choice. But what if she's soul, and she really does have a choice?

Will she help Gil? Her mother warned her, but she didn't take it seriously.

Where she is now, she has to forget her family, such as her brothers and parents. However, we have some memories of her mom and Papa, and of her brother, Michael, and the twins. Will her siblings have Souler, or is it just women in the family?

It's getting more and more interesting as the story goes on. Will Fee finally know that she found her healing? Did he see her?

Why can souls travel centuries? But somewhat struggling in the 21st century with life once they run into their leeches?

Will Fee and Gil have a few children at some point? Will they be souls as well?

Will Fee free her leating? Will she join him once she does? She's trying to learn her soul's past. But is it a family business, or something else? Did her mother not get all the help, or did she not know how to bring her ghost to her, and that is why Fee and her sibling were living in Paris, France, in the 1700s?.