In the Darkness Before Dawn

In Emerson's recurring dream, she is helpless and terrified, watching the spaceship spin out of control and hurtle to Earth. She breathlessly observes the young alien woman, and from the depths of her own psyche, she feels certain that she is this alien, that she is experiencing one of her own past lives, and she is reliving her own death.

The dream began when Emerson's parents were killed in a freak car accident. While mourning their deaths and haunted by the relentless nightmares, Emerson ...