Crossing In A Heartbeat

Kara keeps hearing voices and seeing images that aren't there. Perhaps she is working too hard at her dull engineering job where she spends hours a day correcting documentation. Her love life is non-existent. Her friends just want to drink and get drunk. Life is dull and boring. However, the voices talk of war and espionage. There are moments she feels intense love or like she's flying. But then there are the moments where she feels a heart stop and she finds herself experiencing what she calls an out-of-body experience. Whatever it is, it's more exciting than her current life. And then there is that odd smell. It's a faint musty smell of peppermint. No. It can't be. Dragons?