Linda Howard / Linda Howard Lake of Dreams / Lake of Dreams, from the collection “Strangers in the Night”, 1995 For a month now, Thea Marlow has been having strange, unusual dreams in which she makes love to an unfamiliar man. In these dreams, one historical period bizarrely gives way to another, their names and the content of visions change, only one thing remains unchanged - they are enemies, connected by true passion and love, but there is no trust between them. Day by day, the obsessive visions become more vivid and frightening, and in one of them the girl sees a familiar place - a lake, on the shore of which is her parents’ summer house, where Thea and her family spent their holidays as a child. In an effort to get rid of strange, frightening dreams and find peace of mind, Thea goes to the lake. A very unexpected meeting awaits the girl there... Translation made on the website VeseyaBeta-reading: Nara