Dreams of The Dead
Jen Freeman, a seer or spiritual savant, exist on a high spiritual plain. Self-aware before birth, she has witnessed her murder, and those of friend, Amelia and a soldier's family. Jen hopes to alter these disturbing premonitions by hurling her unborn spirit into the body of Ethan Daniels, a soldier fighting in the Boer Wars, and Jen lands in the midst of an active battle. Due to her lack of sufficiency as a soldier, Ethan is seriously injured. With Jen in tow, he is sent to cape colony home of the Tate family to recover.
There he meets Mary, their host's unstable daughter, who is so infatuated with Ethan and enraged by his rejection that she attacks him, inducing a coma. A further assault results in her pregnancy and institutionalization. After her escape, Mary plots her revenge, while a clueless Ethan returns to his family in England.
Meanwhile, in America, Jen's father, Humble has escaped enslavement and is living free in Baltimore. He meets Elmer Job Fleetwood and together they free his daughter, Irma from a Baltimore prison. Later Humble and Irma marry and Jen is born in Philadelphia shortly after her spirit departs Ethan's body in England.
With his family in constant peril, Humble decides to send them to England while he searches for his long lost mother in Kentucky at the onset of the Civil War. Thus begins a journey spanning a decade and covering three continents, Africa, America and Europe. It chronicles three families whose lives will converge around the one event Jen desperately tired to keep form happening. .
Dreams of the Dead is an imaginative tale of life and death struggles set against hopeful possibilities, of strangers whose lives begin differently but whose destinies are bound by a common fate. Dreams explores questions of whether madness occurs without cause or if it is invariably linked to past cruelty, and ponders if even the most menacing individuals are capable of redemptive change.
