The Sender of the Dreams

As an old man near the Rhine River in AD 370, Canio tells a five-year-old boy stories of the rebel emperors Carausius and Allectus. Now, accused of sorcery and facing execution, Canio hears the old man's voice in his dreams, reliving the past and experiencing a strange epiphany.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 28 July 2022
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Twenty-five years ago, an elderly man lay on his deathbed in a frigid city beside the Rhine, recounting tales from sixty years prior. When the rebel emperors Carausius and Allectus ascended to power in Northern Gaul and Britannia, the old man was a young boy.

Why, then, is Canio, accused of using sorcery to orchestrate the assassination of a provincial governor and facing the imminent threat of execution, suddenly experiencing the old man's voice in his dreams? Revisiting the same stories and recollecting details that his child's mind had long forgotten.

The past and present intertwine seamlessly—in the chilly Londinium, across the turbulent sea, in the warmth and vibrant sunlight of a May countryside, and finally back to a villa nestled at the foot of the Long Limestone Hills.

And then, a peculiar realization.

Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803132204