T J Gristwood Books

T J Gristwood is an Indie fantasy and romance author.

Tara published her first book, Sleeping Sapphire, in 2014 where it reached the Top Five Books in the Amazon fantasy genre. She has since published four other books in The Dream Traveller Series (Waking Sapphire, Wild Sapphire, Burning Sapphire, and Spirit Sapphire).

In 2021 she published an LGBTQ themed contemporary romance, Perfect Twist (Book One of the Perfect Series).

As well as writing books, Tara writes articles for the Life/Spiritual section in The Frank Magazine -Editor in Chief - Ms Melanie Sykes, using her knowledge and experience working as a healer for the last twenty-five years to help inspire and empower women.

Tara lives in the UK with her husband Darren where you can often find her playing with the fairies at the bottom of their garden. She loves listening to music, travelling, dancing, and walking in nature when she doesn’t have her head stuck in a book or is tapping away on her keyboard.

Perfect Twist by T J Gristwood. Book One of the Perfect Series

They say the truth will set you free. But most people don’t want the truth. They want the illusion.

I’m no stranger to illusion. Who is Jackson Doyle, they ask? Who is the man behind the sharp suit and sexy smile? I thought I knew the answer. I’m the Harley Street shrink who heals troubled souls and the man who loves to push boundaries. And I was… until out of the blue a winning lottery ticket shook my world and pushed me abruptly onto a new path.

I never expected to become obscenely rich overnight. I never thought a captivating quirky woman would bewitch me like she has. Money changes many things. But this woman has me in a twist. She’s nothing like anyone I’ve met before… she’s changing me. My new wealth has become irrelevant. Fear is now my concern. Fear she will uncover my secrets and discover the truth of who I am.

A man who craves the touch of women and men. And most importantly a man searching for something most are unwilling to try. A love story made for three.

Sleeping Sapphire by T J Gristwood.
Book One of the Dream Traveller Series

Sapphire Whittaker is no ordinary thirty-something woman.

For a start, her dreams have started to become reality. Meeting the mysterious ‘Fox’ has turned her world upside down, a world suddenly full of magic, passion, dance, drugs, and danger. After moving to a new life in the countryside, she begins to realise that even the local village is not what it seems: everyone is up for a party and her name is on the door to enter a Wonderland she never knew existed.

Sapphire discovers that whilst sleeping and dreaming she can travel to new dimensions and worlds. This magical ability to ‘dream travel’ also becomes possible when she blows caution to the wind and tries a new kind of drug she has never experienced before. Sapphire is changing in ways she never thought were possible, reality and fantasy becoming a crazy mix of adventure, madness, and mayhem. Enter her world and open your mind to the endless possibilities of dreaming. Sleep will never seem the same again!

Waking Sapphire by T J Gristwood.
Book Two of the Dream Traveller Series

The enchanting story of Sapphire Whittaker and ‘Fox’ her Magical Guardian continues in Book Two of The Dream Traveller Series - Waking Sapphire.

As Sapphire embraces her new gifts and travels to the magical world of “Shaka” she finally accepts her life is infinitely different from the average thirty something woman. Her time as a Dream Traveller has truly begun and she leaves Earth in the hope she can keep the new magic, growing at an alarming rate within her, safe.

However, darker forces are eager to capture this power for themselves and Sapphire finds herself pushed to the limit as she is tested again and again on the perilous path she now walks. A new dance awaits Sapphire, one filled with love, passion, danger, bloody battles, and impossible decisions.

The question is… can she survive, and will she ever return to Earth again?

Wild Sapphire by T J Gristwood.
Book Three of the Dream Travellers Series

Book Three of The Dream Traveller Series takes Sapphire Whittaker once again on the ride of her life.

Sapphire and Fox are guided to Egypt to begin the task of planting the magical seeds she has acquired to help heal Mother Earth and awaken the magic that is currently sleeping deep within her.


After downloading a new strain of wild magic, so unique and rare, even her powerful father in-law is in awe, Sapphire begins to fine tune her abilities. She is on a mission to help her fellow humans wake to the possibilities of a new world filled with magic and harmony.


But life is never simple for Sapphire. Old adversaries and new foes are waiting in the wings to pounce, drawn by her powerful magic and the ripples she is creating across time and space.


This time she is ready, ready to fight for the people she loves and complete her task no matter what challenges she must face along the way.

Burning Sapphire by T J Gristwood.
Book Four in the Dream Travellers Series

Book Four of The Dream Traveller Series sends Sapphire and Fox to the Nevada desert in search of the next location to plant her magical seeds.

With questions still unanswered regarding the disappearance of Pearl, her spiritual mother, Sapphire struggles to hold the balance and her sanity, in this unsolved puzzle.

With her wild magic now firmly attuned and a new set of unusual friends to help her, she finds herself facing a new adversary and an entirely different playground to navigate.

‘The Burning Man’ festival in Nevada, USA, creates the perfect energy she requires to take the next step in her magical quest.

Meanwhile, Hecta faces challenges of his own, his path crossing and connecting once again with Sapphire in a way neither could have envisioned.

All things hang in the balance between light and shadow and Sapphire must prevail, or all will be lost.

Spirit Sapphire by T J Gristwood.
Book Five of the Dream Travellers Series

‘My story is long and full of magic. I am wild magic. I sense my journey is almost over. The end is near. My name is Sapphire, and I am the last human Dream Traveller. I am more than just Earth, Air, Fire and Water. I am Spirit.’

Sapphire travels to New Zealand in the fifth and final book of The Dream Traveller Series. With Crow and a new gatekeeper hot on their heels, Sapphire and Fox flee to a world hidden within the lost magic of Earth where her past, present, and future collide.

This is the last stand, where every ally Sapphire and Fox have met on their journey come together, united within the same goal.

To reignite the magic on Earth and give Sapphire the chance to become everything she was destined for.