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After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.

Jenny Cole lives with her husband and son in middle America. She is pregnant and starts to have very vivid dreams about a small city that has a big church. She starts talking to her mother about it and her mother shows her some drawings she made when she was a child. To her amazement they are identical to the drawings from the dreams Jenny is now having. Jenny and her mother do research and find that the dreams are about a small town called Malahide in Ireland in the 1930s. The mother gives Jenny and her husband and son tickets to go to Ireland so that she can go to Ireland to find out about her dreams. Has Jenny lived in the past after all as Mary Sutton?—Rosemea D.S. MacPherson

A Pennsylvanian woman is haunted by vivid and strangely familiar dreams of a mysterious mother and her children. Jenny, a happily married American architect, suddenly begins to experience recurring dreams about a woman named Mary living in a small Irish town with her four children and her abusive husband. Soon after the dreams begin, Jenny discovers she is pregnant. As her pregnancy progresses, Jenny's dreams turn into what seem to be personal recollections of the past. The visions intensify so much that they enable her to draw a detailed map of Mary's hometown. Convinced that she is recalling her past life as Mary, Jenny tries to persuade her husband, Doug, and her son that her dreams are actually real memories. As her visions continue and become more detailed, Jenny realizes that Mary lived in 1930 and that her children could still be alive. Desperately needing answers about what she believes to be her life as Mary, Jenny begins a zealous quest to find the children. Her phone calls and letters are futile, so, with the encouragement of her mother, Margaret, Jenny travels to Ireland to search for the children. Memories easily guide Jenny to Mary's hometown, and the pieces start to fall into place. Jenny's detailed recollections lead her to Sonny, Mary's eldest child, whose unique relationship with his mother has haunted him as well. While everyone struggles to accept what Jenny proves to be true, she must learn how to make peace with the past and live in the present.