David Knight has been plagued by dreams his entire life, only to have all memory of them vanish when he awakens. Now the dreams are coming with more frequency, and they seem to be drawing him to the Amazon. A scientist with a PhD in ichthyology and a dedication to learning all he can about lungfish, whose existence dates back to the Devonian era, David is determined to see what the Amazon holds. His hopes seem about to be answered when Dr. Carlos Avila contacts him. It seems the Brazilian archeologist discovered the remains of a previously undiscovered species on a tributary of the Amazon, and he’d like nothing better than for David to join the expedition to see if more of the creature can be found. Of course David leaps at the opportunity and flies to Pesadelo Bay to join the mismatched team. Once there, he discovers not only does Dr. Avila have his own agenda, but a former conquest as well as a friend who’d saved his life years before are part of the team and are engaged to be married. Meanwhile, the need to sail up the Amazon to find what ... or who ... is calling him there has become more and more pressing, and David must decide which is the most important -- learning what Dr. Avila really is searching for, or finding the answer to his dreams?

Lagoon of Dreams

“Ah, it was probably disposed of by some overzealous lab assistant, no doubt, who thought we were finished with it. Not much was left of it. And so we shall inform Dr. Perez.”


“Will he demand the assistant be fired?”


Carlos gave me a droll look. “Would he seriously expect someone to step forward and confess?”


“And Perez is no idiot. At any rate, they’ll all deny knowledge of it.


“But he’ll still have something.” Sam looked so angry I expected to see steam shooting from his ears. “All the samples.”


“Not important? Not important? How can you say that?”


Carlos just shrugged. “I have what I need, I think—samples and photographs—and if I should need more, well, perhaps I will get up another expedition to that cavern where we found the directions to the Lagoon of Dreams.”


“But what about Perez?” Sam was almost frothing at the mouth.


Chapter 116