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Present day. As a love affair comes to an end, and with it her dreams for her future, artist Selena needs a retreat. The picture-postcard Sloe Cottage in the Somerset village of Ashcombe promises to be the perfect place to forget her problems, and Selena settles into her new home as spring arrives. 1682: Grace Cotter longs for nothing more than a husband and family of her own. Separated by three hundred years, two women are drawn together by a home bathed in blood and magic.

Charlie Wolfe jumps at the chance to help his uncle renovate a tumbledown cottage overlooking Nomansland Common. Number One Constable’s Cottages was once the home of the man charged with ridding the common of the highwaymen who terrorised travellers. But it’s the story of The Wicked Lady, the notorious female highway robber, that captures Charlie’s imagination, and some long winters’ nights he’s sure he can the hoofbeats of her horse echoing across time.

When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to escape north of Inverness to throw herself at the mercy of the Lord and Lady at Ravenscraig Castle. Although safe for now, the people of Scotland are fighting hard for their independence, and the threat of the English hangs heavy over the land. But when Agnes spies Cam Buchanan swimming in the loch, her mind turns away from war and towards love. Agnes even dares to dream of a happy future, until she learns that Cam must go and fight alongside Robert de Brus.

Present Day. When Hanna returns to Norfolk from years working abroad, the strange dreams of her adolescence return: indistinct figures in tunics, mighty soldiers in armour, gladiators, temples, an Iceni warrior woman leading her people. Gradually Hanna’s dreams begin to slip into the present as visions in the famous mists rolling across the fens, and as shocks of recognition when a new face moves to her childhood home. As Hanna realises that she has a connection with a tragedy that occurred many years before, so Brea has to understand that her fate is bound up with her Roman master.

Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is an immensely powerful meditation technique and one of the easiest relaxation methods to develop and maintain. While you lie comfortably on your back, this systematic meditation takes you through the Pancha Maya Kosha (five layers of self), lowering your stress, increasing dopamine levels, and leaving you to feel replenished afterward.

Möchtest du tiefe, erholsame und heilende Zustände innerer Ruhe und Entspannung erreichen—auch wenn es Ihnen normalerweise schwerfällt, "deinen Geist zur Ruhe zu bringen"? Möchtest du in einen tiefen und erholsamen Schlaf fallen—auch wenn du unter Angstzuständen oder Schlaflosigkeit leidest? Dann lies weiter. Yoga Nidra ist eine äußerst wirkungsvolle Meditationstechnik und eine der einfachsten Entspannungsmethoden, die man entwickeln und beibehalten kann.

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