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Category:
Fantasy
ISBN-10: 9781508061724
Type: Fiction
Pages: 193
Copyright: Feb, 2017
ISBN-13: 9781508061724
Price: FREE! (eBook)
For the second time in thirty years, the entire world has fallen asleep.
A science fantasy adventure.
hirty years after the Greymen caused the decimation of her people, high school drop out Rain Collins spends her days learning to pickpocket and hold her booze. Yet she longs for the freedom and adventure of the Dreamwalkers of the past.
When the Greymen return and send her world into a second Big Sleep, Rain discovers her own innate powers and finds the epic adventure she has always sought.
But she soon learns that the dangers of the dream world are far greater than she ever expected.
Hunted by a particularly fearsome Greyman, Rain must put herself at constant risk to keep her friends and family safe from the nightmares. While she rages against the invaders, she searches for the nefarious truth behind their return. Driven by the true thirst for freedom, she will stop at nothing to drive the Greyman from her planet forever.
Excerpt
The Greymen's world of nightmare was not too different from the real world, except that it was constantly shifting. The landscape faded in or out to reveal new scenery as we walked. I caught glimpses of wild lands covered in grime and knotted roots, bits of the cityscape, eerie mist-draped woods. We trekked on, becoming ever more watchful as our silence deepened.
The hairs on the back of my neck rose as the landscape shifted to a cool desert night. A loud snapping sound broke the air around us. We looked desperately in all directions. Then we both saw: the ground was splitting in two between us.
A large crack formed on the dry desert's face, stretching its fingers toward us. I urged Billy to jump over to my side, but too late. The ground opened up into a crater several feet wide and many more leagues deep. There was no way Billy's chubby legs could carry him over.
But me, I was svelte and long. My mother used to say that I had dancer's legs. I thought about the way that running felt in dreams; the air whips by so fast and my body is so light, it's like flying. I held on to that memory and made to leap over the canyon when I heard Billy shout.
I stopped short, scanning the desert. A horde of Greymen marched across both sides of the growing canyon, headed straight at us.
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