Exacting Essence, by James Wymore
(http://j.mp/1qAIGgM)
Remember waking up late in the night after a nightmare? Your mother holding you tight and whispering it's all just a dream and everything would be all right? She lied.
Evil clowns haunted Megan's dreams for years. Even though nobody ever said she was crazy, she knew they were all thinking it. With her life falling apart, she turns suicidal until a new therapist suggests the impossible: dreams are real.
Most, of course, forget theirs as soon as they wake up. Megan is not so lucky. She's also not so powerless.
Catch Me When I Fall, by Vicki Leigh
(http://j.mp/YDIKEN)
Seventeen-year-old Daniel Graham has spent two-hundred years guarding humans from the Nightmares that feed off people’s fears. Then he’s given an assignment to watch over sixteen-year-old Kayla Bartlett, a patient in a psychiatric ward.
When the Nightmares take an unprecedented interest in her, a vicious attack forces Daniel to whisk her away to Rome where others like him can keep her safe. But when the Protectors are betrayed and Kayla is kidnapped, Daniel will risk everything to save her—even his immortality.
Sweet Dreams are Made of Teeth, by Richard Roberts
(http://j.mp/18xnQ95)
Have you ever had the nightmare of being chased by a beast? Then you’ve met Fang. He’ll be the first to admit that he’s a very simple nightmare. All he knows is hunting your dreams and dragging them into the Dark.
He’s not ready for his life to get complicated. He’s not ready to be dragged into his best friend’s schemes to make dreams so terrifying they break people. He’s not ready to love, or to be loved, or to meet someone who makes him happy.
He’s not ready to grow up. When he does, one thing will stay the same: he’ll stay an artist, and he’ll paint your dreams with fear until they’re beautiful.
The Dead Detective, by J.R. Rain & Rod Kierkegaard, Jr.
(http://j.mp/YDIKEN)
Medical-school-dropout police detective Richelle Dadd is… well, dead. But that won’t stop her from trying to hold on to her house in a divorce battle with a bitter husband. Or keep her from digging into her own murder, to discover who put the bullet into her heart. And it certainly won’t stand in the way of finding out the reason she’s been reanimated as a zombie assassin, no longer in control of her life.
Richelle will face off against Gypsy shamans, double-crossing ghosts, a partner she can’t trust, and her own undead nature in a journey into the depths of the occult world and out the other side without losing her sense of humor—or humanity—along the way.
Appetizer:
Book Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Quotes
Main Course:
Chapter One: Overture
Chapter Two: Promenade
Chapter Three: Scheherazade
Chapter Four: Fugue
Chapter Five: Gnomus
Chapter Six: The Old Castle
Chapter Seven: Accelerando
Chapter Eight: Da Capo
Chapter Nine: Bridges
Chapter Ten: Tuileries
Chapter Eleven: Bydło
Chapter Twelve: Segue
Chapter Thirteen: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Chapter Fourteen: Operetta
Chapter Fifteen: Dissonante
Chapter Sixteen: Nocturne
Chapter Seventeen: Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle
Chapter Eighteen: Entr’acte
Chapter Nineteen: Breaks
Chapter Twenty: The Marketplace at Limoges
Chapter Twenty-One: Verismo
Chapter Twenty-Two: Bruscamente
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Catacombs
Chapter Twenty-Four: Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua
Chapter Twenty-Five: Doloroso
Chapter Twenty-Six: Echoes
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Morendo
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Incalzando
Chapter Thirty: Tutti
Chapter Thirty-One: The Bogatyr Gates
Chapter Thirty-Two: Coda
Dessert:
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Thank You for Reading
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