The goddess: a demon

The dream that murders. After a night of cards, John Ferguson falls asleep and sees his friend Edwin Lawrence slaughtered in a vision so vivid it leaves him trembling. Then he wakes to find a blood-soaked, impossible woman climbing through his window like something escaped from his nightmare. By morning, Lawrence is dead exactly as Ferguson dreamed, and the amnesiac goddess at his window is the only witness to a killing that defies explanation. What follows is a fever-dream of a Gothic thriller: dark secrets, multiplying suspects, supernatural threats closing in, and a man spiraling toward a truth more terrifying than any nightmare. Marsh writes with the claustrophobic intensity of a manacled tale, trapping his protagonist in a web where dreams bleed into reality and the line between victim and monster dissolves.