Dreamwords: The Journal

Born with a terrible birthmark on his face, Jack Burns is shunned from his first day at school and stared at as he walks alone through the streets of his home town Edinburgh. Now a young man, he is linked to a story of two infants found inside the castle grounds over sixteen years before. One of them, a boy, had a birthmark like Jack's and the other, a girl, is buried in Greyfriars Cemetery. Compelled to investigate, he is confronted by a sister he never knew and propelled to a medieval future. There, he finds an ally in Skye-born Billy McCaul, a young man bent on a relentless mission to rescue his sweetheart from the brutal soldier he once trained.

Dreamwords is a sweeping adventure set in a future that has much in common with the past. With themes of love and family, power and superstition, we travel through a world where technology is everywhere and yet invisible to those who fear the empty houses and towns that dot the land around them. Swords and castles, brutality and love are reminiscent of a Braveheart setting and yet what they see and hear in their heads has more to do with those who have gone before than the taboos the inhabitants invent to explain them.