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She seeks out a local doctor who she has come to trust and they have come up with the only logical explanation….she has inherited her ancestors memories and channeling their stories. It is more than just being a psychic medium or dreaming a story….the story is in her soul. The visions are so vivid and compelling that Carrie is being entirely consumed by them. Carrie is telling the true story of her ancestors. Sophia and Moray fall deeply in love and are separated by circumstance and a treacherous plot to restore King James to the Scottish throne.Īs Carrie writes her novel, she is driven by her characters speaking strongly in her ears and the strange thing is….Sophia Paterson is her relative.

It is here at Slains Castle that heroine Sophia Paterson meets the dashing Lt Col John Moray. It is like she is channeling her characters from a different time and a different place….

The words and story flow onto the page in long sweeping, fluid lines….it is unlike anything she has written before. So she packs up all her stuff in France and rents a small cottage in the village and begins writing. She feels a strong pull to the castle and cannot bring herself to stay away…she knows her story is meant to be here and not in France. On her way there, she takes a detour and stops at the costal town of Cruden Bay to admire the castle. She decides to take a break and visit her agent friend, Jane, who lives in Scotland. Her characters won’t come alive and she can’t get even an outline committed to paper.

Writer, Carrie McClelland is uncannily drawn to the northern Scottish town of Cruden Bay, home to a ruined castle known as Slains Castle (the castle was also the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula).Īfter researching her new book in France for months, she is still at square one. What if memories could be passed down, like DNA from generation to generation and you just inherit them the same way you do eye color? That is the question that Susanne Kearsley explores in her book The Winter Sea….could time travel through Jungian theory be possible? There is much that science doesn’t know about memory and much that simply cannot be explained. What recalls a memory most to you, scent? Sound? A place? How accurate are your memories? Has your subconscious twisted your memories and changed the from what really happened to what you remember? How much can you truly trust your memory? Those little moments of déjà vu, was it just that or perhaps you had really been there before in a past life. Even if just as a memory from long ago, they are still with us….always. All things have a way of coming back to us in the end.