Dream Across This Mortal Coil

Fifteen-year-old Lucinda is always awake while dreaming. Once a sanctuary, her dream world makes a dramatic shift and twists out of control, blurring the line between sleeping and waking-maybe even sanity. It's hard enough being a high school sophomore without being that girl who nods off during Spanish and wakes up screaming on the classroom floor. Lucinda fights for normalcy, but her dream reality has other ideas as unwelcome guests bleed over from the other side, wrecking her social life. Her only comfort is seeing glimpses of her mother's soul.

David, a boy from her dreams, introduces Lucinda to others, who claim they will teach her to control these nightmares. These other entities remain wary. Her homegrown abilities and her lack of training make Lucinda the equivalent of a toddler playing with a loaded gun, and anyone in either of her realities could get hurt. She's torn between balancing the intricate life of a high school student with the complex realm of her dreams. When her powers make a quantum leap, warring factions in her dream world compete for her allegiance. She is a weapon, but for which side? Lucinda must make the right choices, or become lost, forever.