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Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare

Description

In a Gothaminspired city where people go to sleep and wake up as their own nightmares perfectly normal perfectly terrified Ness must face her biggest fears before she ends up a casualty in some elses villainous war

Face your fear or become your nightmare

Ever since her sister became a maneating spider and slaughtered her way through town nineteenyearold Ness has been terrified terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her and terrified of ending up like her sister Because in Newham the city that never sleeps dreaming means waking up as your worst fear

Whether that means becoming a Nightmare thats monstrous only in appearance or transforming into a twisted unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city no one is safe Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul a questionable organization that may or may not be a cult

But being a member of this maybecult has a price In order to prove herself Ness cons her way into whats supposed to be a simple job for the organization only for it to blow up in her face Literally Tangled up in the aftermath of an explosive assassination now Ness and the only other survivor a Nightmare boy who Ness suspects is planning to eat her must find their way back to Newham and uncover the sinister truth behind the attack even as the horrors of her past loom ominously near

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