Nightmares are Dreams, Too

'Nightmares are Dreams, Too,' tells a story about Kate Warne, a Pinkerton Detective. In 1868, Kate is emotionally and physically exhausted and contemplating her future when she rescues a young girl from kidnappers in Key West. Kate soon finds out that the girl's father owns a sugar plantation in Cuba and is leading a revolution to overthrow the Spanish government.

Kate returns the girl to her family in Cuba and becomes embroiled in Cuba's ten-year-war for independence. She takes part in the brutal and unlikely Battle of Pino de Baire, where less than fifty revolutionaries fight more than 700 Spanish troops--and defeat them. But the moral cost to Kate is life-altering.

'Nightmares are Dreams, Too,' is largely a grand, historical adventure which highlights the cost of war on the human soul. But it also explores Cuba's strained relationship with their indigenous people, the Taino, who befriend Kate and become among the first to join the rebellion.

As one reviewer wrote, 'You don't read a novel by Bebout, you live it. His research is so thorough that you feel as though you are being carried back in time."