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. Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through townnineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified–terrified of some other Nightmare murdering herand terrified of ending up like her sister. Because in Newhamthe city that never sleepsdreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that’s monstrous only in appearanceto transforming into a twistedunrecognizable creature that terrorizes the cityno one is safe. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victimeven if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soula questionable organization that may or may not be a cult. But being a member of maybe-cult has a price. In order to prove herselfNess cons her way into what’s 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 assassinationnow 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 attackeven as the horrors of her past loom ominously near.