Dreams of the Alhambra

A missing friend. A fractured memory. A past that refuses to let go.

 

Mackenzie Douglas wakes in an Istanbul hospital with no memory of the night her friend Copper disappears. Months later, desperate to outrun the trauma, she escapes to Granada, Spain, to work on her master’s thesis at the legendary Alhambra Palace.

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But the palace hides its own dark secrets. A seemingly harmless tisane meant to help her sleep pulls Mackenzie into vivid, immersive dreams—visions of Zahra, a spirited Moorish princess, navigating forbidden love, betrayal, and political upheaval in 15th-century Granada. A story that intertwines with Mackenzie’s in ways she cannot explain.

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As danger and intrigue close in on Zahra, fragments of Mackenzie’s lost night in Istanbul resurface, revealing that danger has followed her to Spain.

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Caught between two timelines, two destinies, and two lives that may span centuries, Mackenzie realizes that to survive, she must face the darkest truth of all:

 

Some histories return not to haunt us … but to claim us.