Dream Verdict – Kobo eBook

Eva Rami has watched the first train leave Ashwick from the window of her bakery for nine years. She knows the staff, the commuters and the exact place where the yellow line stops feeling like a precaution and starts looking like a warning. Then she dreams that Jonas Peck pushes someone over the platform edge. The person wears a grey hoodie like her son’s.

In the morning there is nobody on the tracks. Jonas is at work. Tomas has a train to catch and a practical assessment he cannot miss. Eva decides to look before she tells anyone what she saw. Then she learns that two other people woke with frightening accounts of their own.

The details differ at first. One person remembers a hand on a coat. Another is sure of a sound. As they talk, what they heard from each other begins to feel like something they remember. Soon the people trying to prevent an attack are changing who goes where, who gets believed and who is left to stand alone on the platform.

Eva has reasons to distrust Jonas that go back years. She also knows that a dream cannot tell her what he has done. By the time she realises how far the accusation has travelled, getting Tomas away from danger will mean looking closely at the precautions she helped put in place.

Dream Verdict is a supernatural horror novel set in a railway town where the night’s most frightening image begins to take shape in broad daylight.