Learning to dream was the first step. Learning to survive the dream will be the second...

Lily Markart never felt truly alive until the day she learned to dream. For the first fifteen years of her life, Lily's father hid her talent from her, and she wants to know why. Following snatches of song that haunt the corners of her mind, she finds herself drawn into the Dreambetween, a realm of shared wonders and nightmares, shaped by those blessed with special dreaming blood.

Blood like Lily's.

But the same blood that marks her as special may also prove her undoing. For two hundred...

Power is dangerous. Especially in the hands of the desperate...

Prehistoric Britain. A purge of the dreaming witches known as the "siaradwyr" has left the orphan girl Drysi hunted and alone. Having seen the woman she called grandmother murdered before her eyes, young Drysi nurses her anger and plots her revenge.

2004. A year has passed since Lily Markart's traumatic introduction to the Dreambetween. Despite having come to grips with her formidable dreaming power, she finds herself isolated and emotionally fragile, both in the dream and in the waking world. Her one chance at...

The dream's future is poised on a knife edge, and its savior can no longer dream...

Ten years ago, Lily Markart lost the ability to dream and ran away from home. Having rebuilt her life on the other side of the country, she is on the verge of starting a new family when rumors of a plague begin to surface. Dreamers are dying, and the Dreambetween is at war with itself. Now Lily must find a way to return to the dream to join the battle that will shape its future.

And two hundred years in the past, the stories of two remarkable and twisted dreamers will lay the foundation for the...