Across the sands of time

the long version

"Newly engaged to Geoff, schoolteacher Thea Partington is happy with her career, her show ponies and family life at their farm on the Wirral. But everything changes when Irish vet Dominic joins the local practice and Thea is attracted to him. The engaged pair begin to renovate an idyllic, but empty and ramshackle, property on Partington land. Thea experiences a series of waking dreams of the history of the house, revealing uncanny parallels, stormy relationships and fearful consequences. Meanwhile, Dominic, a man with a past, loves Thea, but believes he is fated. But are the fates on their side?"--Publisher description.