The Story
A brilliant fertility doctor starts having dreams so vivid they feel like memories — of women crossing Asia, founding Silk Road cities and carrying an ancient burden. As the dreams begin to expose the men around her, three bloodlines that have circled each other for five thousand years converge in modern Chicago, where love, inheritance and violence demand one final choice.
Lives of Alara is a novel about memory, inheritance, and the danger of being seen too clearly by someone who wants to possess what should only be protected.
For five thousand years, the women in Alara’s bloodline have carried dreams that are more than dreams. They remember migrations, betrayals, births, deaths and warnings from lives they never lived. The gift preserves knowledge — but it also marks them.
From a condo in the St Regis building, Alara begins to understand that her visions are not metaphor, illness or family legend. They are a map. They point backward through history and forward toward the man who has been searching for her over centuries. Alara and her friends in Chicago use the modern tools of medicine, business and the law to fight an ancient foe. But will it be enough?
The Dreamer, the Protector and the Destroyer. This time, the Dreamer knows enough to choose.