DANDELION - Limited edition hardback

Limited to just 10 signed / numbered copies

From the author of "Life, Death and the In-between"; Matt Shaw's first Dark Romance.

Alexander has always believed something was missing from his life.

New to the city and adrift without roots, he spends his days moving through temporary jobs and his nights plagued by recurring dreams: a sun-lit field, a woman he loves, and a sudden descent into violence which he can never stop. Each dream ends the same way; her scream, his helplessness, and waking before the ending he instinctively knows exists.

Across the city, Maria lives a life defined by quiet endurance. Trapped in a marriage that feels more like captivity than companionship, she has learned to survive by making herself smaller, by not wanting, not hoping, not imagining a life beyond the walls her husband William has built around her. Yet something shifts the day a stranger walks into the coffee shop where she works. A man whose presence feels impossibly familiar. A man who makes her feel something she barely remembers how to name. Safe.

The encounter is brief. Innocent. And dangerous.

Unbeknownst to either of them, William feels it too.

William has always known Maria would try to escape him. He has lived long enough to recognise the signs: the hesitation, the warmth she shouldn’t feel, the pull toward another soul. What Maria does not yet remember, and what Alexander has only begun to glimpse in his dreams, is that their lives have intersected before. Many times. Across centuries. Across deaths.