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.