In Dreams

By Elissa Wilds

New York published, multi-award winning author Elissa Wilds weaves an erotic fantasy tale of desire and obsession.

Anna escapes from the grief of her husband's death with her newly discovered talent for astral projection, a conscious out-of-body experience. Then she meets a sexy stranger on the astral plane who reawakens her passion. But how can she find love again if the man she desires is only....in dreams?

First published in the "Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance" Feb 2010, Running Press.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elissa Wilds
• Release date: Nov 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311035332

Elissa Wilds

Elissa Wilds is multi-published in paranormal romance by Dorchester Publishing, Running Press, and Montlake Publishing. Her work has received rave reviews and has garnered a number of awards including placement in the prestigious 2009 Published Maggie Award of Excellence Contest and the Grand Prize win in the 2010 Laurie’s Best Published Contest. Elissa loves to investigate and write about all things paranormal. In her spare time, she's been known to ghost hunt, sing karaoke, and attempt to play guitar.

Book preview

In Dreams

A Short Story by: Elissa Wilds

Copyright 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Smashwords Edition

Time didn’t exist here. Not in this place. Not in these moments. Here, the air held an electric charge that swept through Anna when her feet touched the soft-as-silk sand and made her limbs shiver with excitement. Here she breathed in the salty ocean air instead of city smog and the exhaust fumes of rush hour traffic. No worries touched her mind. Nothing of the two-dimensional world she called reality could penetrate to this realm.

Which was a good thing.

The whole reason she’d decided to attempt astral travel was to escape from an unbearable reality. From a world where her husband was dead and she was alone. Two years had passed since Richard’s death, but it seemed to her a lifetime.

In the astral realm, a quiet peace filled her being and made the world she called home seem but a dream. A sad, unnecessary dream.

Anna glanced around with a quiet calm she had only recently developed. The first few times she’d attempted to astral travel, she’d been nervous and uncertain. She’d read books on the subject, but as much as the authors of those books reassured that nothing could hurt her here, it had taken a few successful trips for her to believe them. She’d learned quickly. With the slightest focus Anna could create what she wanted to see and experience. So of course, she came back here. To her dreamtime beach.

She loved the beach, but hadn’t seen much of it since she’d accepted the job in D.C. She’d been anxious to get out of Santa Barbara. To go anywhere as long as it was far away from her life in California and the life she’d shared with Richard.

But running had proved pointless. Wherever you go, there you are.

Anna dug