In The Garden of Stones
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Complete, First published Nov 29, 2013
Grace Dove is encouraged by her psychotherapist to create an imaginary friend. She thinks she has...until she discovers she hasn't made him up at all. Colin McLeod is real enough...a disabled soldier in a military rehabilitation centre suffering severe PTSD. He too has created an imaginary place of his own - the garden of stones - in which to retreat to find peace. Somehow their two worlds have combined, bringing them together. When Grace discovers Colin is in danger the fight is on to bring him back to the real world before he loses not only his mind, but his life. 
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