Paul Corbitt has what he feels is a pretty good life. He's
content to be an 8th grade history teacher at Magnolia
Creek Middle School in Colorado just outside of Boulder. He
has a loving mother and stepfather as well as some great
friends that he has grown up with. The Broncos are his
favorite football team and he loves watching the games with
his friends. Yes, Paul's life is pretty good. Except for a
couple of things, that is.
Paul's father died when he was still a young child
of a rare genetic cancer. While his father died from
leukemia, Paul, himself, developed brain cancer. He had a lot
of treatments when he was young to get rid of the cancer.
Even now, he still must have regular MRIs to watch for the
return of the cancer. It's something that follows him
around like a black cloud.
A "symptom" of his brain tumor is a type of telepathy that
allows him to "know" things just before they happen. This
sense comes and goes, but lately, it seems to be getting
stronger. Because of this, he's much more nervous about his
upcoming MRI, and it turns out that he has reason to be.
The diagnosis following the latest MRI results is not good.
In fact, it's deadly. Not only has Jack's brain cancer
returned with a vengeance, but his doctor gives him a
prognosis of only about a month. However, there's a slim
chance that a radical new treatment may just save Jack's
life. The problem is that, while the treatment does get rid
of the cancer, it has a severe side effect of insanity and
even death. Of the 8 people that have undergone the
treatment, 5 lost their minds and were hospitalized for
schizophrenia, 2 died and only 1 was doing well. Jack
doesn't see that he's got any choice, though, because
without the treatment, death is certain. So he eagerly signs
up to start these treatments immediately.
When Jack undergoes his first treatment, he finds that he
has a very odd dream that seems to take him to the
year 1971. He slips into the mind of Maggie Roper, a
fledgling reporter for a newspaper. She's in the process of
investigating the murders of young women that seem to be the
work of a serial killer. This sounds very familiar to Jack
because there are murders identical to the ones in 1971
occurring in his time, 2012.
Jack wakes up with the memory of this strange dream, but he
does know that he shouldn't mention this to anyone or
they'll think he's losing his mind due to the treatments.
Rather, Jack starts to do some investigating of his own.
What he finds leads him to believe that the killer in the
present is connected in some way to the killer in 1971. He
needs to figure out a way to stop these murders without
affecting the natural balance of history, but is that even
possible?
IN DREAMS takes readers on a journey unlike any other.
It's difficult to tell much about the plot without
giving things away but suffice it to say that this book is a
mix of the supernatural and science fiction all
rolled up into one. Is it possible to go back in time
through dreams? Who is to say that it's not? Reading IN DREAMS
will make you do a lot of thinking about what the
possibilities are.
In the mountainous outskirts of Boulder, Colorado a serial
killer begins killing people in the same exact manner as
four unsolved murders in the area from forty-one years ago.
The police suspect a copycat. But when Jack Corbitt
experiences a bizarre phenomenon, he begins to believe the
police are dead wrong. During a series of a new life saving
cancer treatment, Jack's brain is somehow able to open a
mysterious portal to the past. He is stunned to discover
that he is able to communicate with Maggie Roper, a
newspaper reporter from forty-one years ago who is
investigating the unsolved murders. The telepathic
connections come in the form of dreams after each treatment.
Jack helps Maggie investigate the brutal murders of the four
people in 1971. By doing so, he discovers that a serial
killer is not only murdering people in the present, but is
also slicing through time as well. Using the same
para-psychological event as Jack, the killer is able to
commit these gruesome crimes again in the past. Knowing that
his telepathic abilities will likely end when his treatments
are finished, Jack must race against time - and through time
to stop a deranged present day serial killer who has the
ability to murder through the mind of a serial killer in the
past. Jack knows that the only way to stop this psychotic
murderer is -In Dreams.
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