Enter the nightmare
Insane asylums are not conducive to kindness and compassion but rather to keep patients sedated and under control. Alice Radstone should not have gone back to her life before the Hotel Of Dreams before this cloistered young women was a perfectly cloistered teacher of the Ballantine Academy. The second time she entered this place as she remembered her wedding night and next day in a locked ward of a hospital for the criminally insane. Hiding in a bathroom of room 205, Alice was told she killed jer husband. A dead man in the shower behind her and blamed herself. Not going full force either her p psychic senses for self defence , might be risky at this time. Plus when you read paragraphs 4 and 5 page 2 you’ll know more. Then things escalated and there’s an intruder plus edit till you read more. Meet Owen March and here’s where the dynamics change. Chapter 2 she and Oliver exchange identities and he shows her who he shows her who her is and where he comes from. Then she has to escape the asylum never coming back. But at the star before Owen takes charge she’s hiding with a dead body in the shower and 2 masked men ready to kidnap her once again. Owen saying he’s there to protect her from and the plots takes on and hope it’s not to blindside her and kidnap her.
Then we learn more about him and who he is. CEO of Forensic PSI- Genetics Consulting. Then she explains what a single photo from her wedding day means. Her marriage was arranged as one of convenience and pages 36-37 elaborates and a gold necklace tuned and locked amber on her earring and watch. Plus she claims she funny steal the amber. Where does he take her and are they safe? Locator do they have one those ex/Guild?
Then her reminder forcing her to leave and go to Ballantine campus. She was only 12 then and cried but soon realized Cadence Ballantine and her academy gave her a home.
Then Owen and Alice talk about her dreams and the author defines Lucid Dreams and explains them and Owen calls them Dream Spinner and trad page 41 to understand how it works and how she can tune a person’s dreams and control them which the person thinks came from themselves but she tells her the story she wants to hear and Alice can do even more like trigger nightmares. The plot changed in many directions as Owen about her stay at Gerber Serenity snd why this man wanted her face un the asylum and why accuse her if murdering her husband Tracy’s whose deaths is questionable and the man who runs the asylum wants Oliver to bring her back. Plus why is Kelbrook claiming Travis as a relative and wait until you hear Oliver’s solution to protect Alice. It gets more involved as she talks about why she was so important to Kelbrook Check out the mirror that was s video camera as we enter the next chapter the next chapter and learn more. Then he talks about the mirror and she agrees but what was really behind it and why was it there. Then talking about an MC marriage he wonders if she think he’ll take advantage of her. So many thoughts in many different places.
The reasons Alice was taken and when looking up close at a video and picture if her kidnappers Travis her husband was one. Things take in danger when Oliver walks Jerome her and ways that Kilbrook might get out of the par-Psych hospital and track her down. They need a plan and he knows where they can hide but danger will find them but when?
Reminders snd lack of memory about Trsvus plus the mirror bead not ordinary and Owen decides to call the editor of the Curtain announcing his marriage to Alice’s exclusive . Plus her comment proof she did not kill Travis. Married snd now having to find a way to be safe as he’s sure that Kelbrook and his team will go after her in some way. Chairs 13-14 elaborated in his thinking and Alice now explains sociopath but that’s not what Kelbrook have in them is not sociopath but they know the ethics of the situation and choosing loyalty to the family even if hurting people because they value their money. Then telling Alice about her psi – profile and he explains what she could gave fine after graduation but there’s more. Owen reads her biography and as she is one of ten dream lights talents Draper documented and defining the Ballantine Academy and plus Draper’s assessment of her dreamlight talent. Draper then accepted a semester residency at the Academy. Owen dealt with him and Draper defined individual dreams like hypnosis. Defining the tuner and his perceptions page 104 first 5 paragraphs. Then learn how she tuned a dream for him and then Draper leaves. She felt she had to take the blame for his leaving . Plus what Sam and Ron did to cover up what Webber instituted after her escape. What they were to do was not why they helped her escape .
Sebastian the ghost bunny is up and needs to get quiet . Then bartenders suggested the three leave.
A phone call and s person named Brooke would shake up Alice and tell her ancestry facts about her mother , late father who her mother married against family rules as they had control and when her mother was having Alice she was sent away and forced out her in an orphanage snd get rid of the child. Married to Kenbrook another child at a different time. Alice learned he was not her father and she was sent away until they decided to pair her with Travis Poole tells more. Then we learn how and why she is accused of killing him but did not. Chapter 18 unravels who her DNAIs related to and step one of their plan Alice must marry into the Kelbrook family and step 2 have her committed into a para-psych hospital and diagnosed dangerously insane and then in a Covenant marriage Travis gets to control her finances and more.
Author Jayne Castle takes us inside the minds if those who possess psychic abilities and are called para – psychic.
What about the death of Travis and and Hotel of Dreams connection missing piece . Why all this company out of nowhere? Chapters 20-21 more memory losses and why Owen searched for her then their connection becomes closer.
Then tragedy and Two different people want to kidnap her? Three kidnappings do far what is the same? Page 221 last paragraph. Ad the plot and novel closes we learn just who Rose is and her reasons for helping Kelbrook and why he wanted her out of the way. Plus just why Travis too? Truths , lies, murder for his own reasons and an ending that you won’t expect and where will Owen and Alice wind up?
Yardley her old partner what was his role?
The final chapters will bring it all in focus, the truth about Rose, the Guild,Twitchel and how they finally found the right game pieces and ending you need to read for yourself. Final chapter where will it end? Enter their nightmares and find out yourselves if you escape !
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