In Dreams Begin — Skyler White

From a Victorian Ireland of magic, poetry, and rebellion, Ida Jameson, an amateur occultist, reaches out for power, but captures Laura Armstrong, a modern-day graphic artist, instead. Now, for the man or demon she loves, each woman must span a bridge through Hell and across history...or destroy it.

Every passionate man is linked with another age, historical or imaginary, where alone he finds images that rouse his energy.
-- W. B. Yeats

Anchored in fact on both sides of history, the women are linked from the moment Ida channels Laura into the body of celebrated beauty and Irish freedom fighter Maud Gonne. When Laura, falls -- from an ocean and a hundred years away -- passionately, Victorianly in love with the young poet W. B. Yeats, their love affair entwines with Irish history and weaves through Yeats's poetry until Ida discovers something she wants more than magic in the subterranean spaces between Laura's time and her own.

With her Irish past threatening her orderly present and the man she loves in it, Laura and Yeats -- the practical materialist and the poet magus -- must find a way to make love last over time, in changing bodies, through modern damnation, and into the mythic past to link their pilgrim souls...or lose them forever.