Our fantasies may be revealed in our dreams, they find us, suspended in the twilight zone of reality and a dream-like state, blurring what is real and what isn’t, balancing on the known and unknown. Lost loves or new loves materialise from the mists in this amorphous world – will they solidify into reality or vanish from whence they came? Still, we yearn to dream, craving to see a face again from a distant place, but where there is light, the cracks can be filled with darkness, where dreams can look like nightmares, a veil that is pulled across our eyelids. It jolts us back into reality. We choose to create and control our desires, yet with no beginning or end – are we really the masters at all?

Featuring a foreword by Alexandra Beaumont, and stories by these authors: Benjamin Adams, Aishatu Ado, Dee Alberts, Danielle Marie Cahill, Bella Chacha, Victor W. Clubb, Irene W. Collins, K.S. Dearsley, H.L. Docherty, Philip Brian Hall, Diyora Kabilova, Shona Kinsella, Vanessa Ziff Lasdon, Corina Lee, Hayden Lewis, Trixie Nisbet, Anna Rose, Peter K. Rothe, M.L. Smythe, Kathleen Stanley, Rose Strickman, E.W.H. Thornton, Theresa Tyree, Rod A. White and Nemma Wollenfang.

Flame Tree Romantic Fantasy – a captivating blend of our signature Gothic Fantasy collections with the passion and magic of Romantasy. This series featuring stories selected from open submissions is an exciting addition to Flame Tree's Beyond & Within, Myths, Gods & Immortals, Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales Collections, all beautifully presented, perfect as a gift and offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Alexandra lives a double life of folklore fantasy and professional tree-hugging. When not haunting gothic moors, she can be found LARPing as a muddy ranger or a forge witch. Her debut, Testament of the Stars, is a gothic romantic fantasy of cults and prophecies. Her folklore fantasies, Dissonance of Bird Song (Indie Press Award Distinguished Favourite) and Ballad of River Bones, are lyrical tales of love, loss and sacrifice.