What happens if dreams aren’t memories of a past life, but glimpses of a history that never happened?
Muireann O’Connor is a normal woman with a rather unusual problem. Working as an IT technician in Bristol, she is plagued by vivid dreams of a village under attack: the smell of burning cottages and a terrifying pirate whose decomposing corpse haunts her sleep.
Later, she discovers there’s a historical event behind her nightmares: the sack of Baltimore in 1631, when Barbary pirates carried away more than a hundred Irish men, women, and children.
But something doesn’t make sense. As she delves into the history, she discovers that the official records disagree about how many people were taken.
Death (yes, that Death) claims that time itself has stopped working properly—as he puts it, it needs a stitch to put it right. And when Muireann undergoes regression therapy, she discovers that the past may not be what she thought it was.
As the boundaries between history and reality begin to break down, Muireann is drawn into a mystery that spans the centuries. She must uncover the truth about what happened to Rosie O’Shea and confront the consequences of the fractured timeline. If she cannot she may no longer exist.
Along the way, she encounters two medieval warriors accompanied by a monk, and forces that have no place in the modern world. Armed with nothing more than her sharp wit, a stubborn refusal to accept the impossible, and a sword she has no idea how to use, Muireann finds herself caught between two versions of history—and only one is correct.
Regression: The One That Got Away is a supernatural historical adventure combining time travel, mystery, dark humour, and the enduring question of what happens when history refuses to stay in the past.
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