Into the Dreaming (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Aedan MacKinnon: "Vengeance" - Has been held captive by the Unseelie King for five hundred years, slowly losing his humanity. He meets the lady for him. Jane has to find a way to make him remember who she is and what they have together. Has long dark hair and brilliant aquamarine eyes; 30 years old; Is tall and powerfully muscular with no fat on his body
• Jane Sillee: Aspiring romance novel writer; Has been dreaming of Aedan as long as she can remember; Is barely five-four and very curvy with porcelain skin; Has long, curly red hair and molten amber eyes
• Mary MacKinnon: "Saucy Mary" - Aedan & Rose's mother; A Norse princess; Findanus' wife; A beauty with wild blonde tresses
• Findanus MacKinnon: Aedan & Rose's father; Saucy Mary's husband; Resembled Aedan very much
• Rose MacKinnon: Aedan's younger sister; A dark-haired girl
• Aoibheal: (Ah-veel) - The beautiful fairy Queen of the Tuatha Dé Danaan; High Queen of the Seelie, Court of the Light; Has silver hair, exotic almond-shaped eyes in a pale face and that are of no color known to man but conjure images of the iridescent hues of a mermaid's wet tail gleaming in the sun; Her skin is always dusted with gold; Is nearly 60,000 years old; The Unseelie King's long-ago consort
• Unseelie King: "King of Darkness" - King of the Unseelie of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, Court of Darkness; Aoibheal's long-ago consort; Is many hundreds of thousands of years old
• Laura: Jane's boss at the Smiling Cobra Café
• Sexpot: Jane's tiger-striped kitten
• Elias: Village elder; Has silver hair
• Duncan MacKinnon: Robert & Niles' brother; Was killed along with his brothers fighting for Robert the Bruce more than a century ago; Resembled Aedan very much
• Robert MacKinnon: Duncan & Niles' brother; Was killed along with his brothers fighting for Robert the Bruce more than a century ago; Resembled Aedan very much
• Niles MacKinnon: Duncan & Robert's brother; Was killed along with his brothers fighting for Robert the Bruce more than a century ago; Resembled Aedan very much
• Robert the Bruce: Was a leader of the Scots fighting for independence from England; Had dark hair and a thick beard
• Jessica: Jane's teenage niece
• Kenneth McAlpin: Former king of Scotland; Aedan's twice-removed grandfather
• Henna: A woman from the village

Quotes edit see section history

• “Into the Dreaming lure them deep—where they shall love whilst they doth sleep—then in the waking both shall dwell—'til love's fire doth melt his ice-borne hell.”

  Aoibheal

• “Free him from his ice-borne hell—And in his century you both may dwell.—In the Dreaming hast thou loved him—Now, in the Waking must thou save him.”

  Aoibheal

• “Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope.Today was another day to live and do one's best to love”

  Jane Sillee

• “You are mine, and only mine, for all of ever, then yet another day.”

  Aedan MacKinnon

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Not Quite Scotland: Year 928
• Scotland: "Scotia"
• Highlands
• Dun Haakon: on the Isle of Skye
• Isle of Skye: "Eilean A Cheo" - "Misty Isle" - Year 1428
• Faery
• The Dreaming: That elusive, much-sought, everforgotten realm where mortals occasionally brush pale shoulder to iridescent wing with the fairy. That place where mortals would be astonished to know battles are won and lost, universes born, and true love preordained.
• Oldenburg, Indiana: Present Day
• Smiling Cobra Café: Where Jane works
• Kyleakin: Village near Dun Haakon on the Isle of Skye
• Bannockburn
• Purdue University

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Glossary edit see section history

• Tuatha Dé Danaan: (tua day dhanna) - A highly advanced race of immortal beings that settled in Ireland thousands of wars before the birth of Christ. Called by many names: Children of the Goddess Danu; the True Race; the Gentry; the Daoine Sidhe; they are most commonly referred to as the Fae or Fairy. Although frequently portrayed as shimmering, dainty creatures of diminutive size that flit about exuding effervescent good humor and a penchant for mild mischief the true Tuatha Dé are neither so delicate nor so benevolent.
• Hand of Vengeance: The Unseelie King's deadly, prized assassin; He fashions him by capturing a mortal, driving him past human limits into madness, indurating him to all emotion, then endowing him with special powers and arts.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Spell of the Highlander.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

sexual content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Historical
• Books › Romance › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Time Travel

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Karen Marie Moning: Official Site
• Karen Marie Moning: Highlander Series Page

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