Novel: _Hunted Dreams_
Author: Elle Hill
Book description: Her history, her whereabouts, her name: She knows nothing. Nothing
but her current reality: a constant stream of horrific, surrealistic scenarios
in which she fights not only monsters and unseen attackers but also her own
pain and despair.
Reed Jayvyn is an ex-Army vet, penniless and living in his truck. After saving a young man from attackers, he finds himself embroiled in a superhuman drama between the Broschi and the Clan, two groups engaged in a centuries-long war. Worse, he finds he is one of them—a Broschi, a psychic vampire that feeds off the pain of humans. But Reed’s greatest surprise comes each night, when he finds himself dreaming of a fierce, nameless woman.
She is dreaming. So says the handsome man who uses his heretofore latent psychic ability to flicker in and out of her dreamscape. With Reed’s help, she slowly learns more about who she is, why she is here, what trauma in her past keeps her locked inside her mind. Meanwhile, Reed explores his own heritage, discovering enemies and allies in unexpected places.
But most important to Reed is freeing this woman caught in an endless loop of nightmares, someone he considers in every way to be the woman of his dreams.
Excerpt:
“This is your world,” he said, “not mine. I’m
just a bit player. Somehow you pulled me into your subconscious playground.”
She drew her breath in sharply, and her
nostrils flared. “Are you saying this is a dream?” she all but whispered.
Surprised, Reed nodded. “Yeah. Didn’t you
know?”
She shook her head. “I didn’t know where this
was. I considered a dream, but why don’t I ever wake up?”
Forgetting the sword, Reed took a step toward
her. She threw him a cautious look but didn’t say anything. “It’s just a
dream,” he said. “You do wake up. You just don’t remember it. You’re sleeping
right now, just like me. The only mystery is how you dragged me into—”
“You’re wrong,” she said hoarsely. “I don’t
wake up, not ever. I just flow from one scene to another.”
“Girl, you’re dreaming,” he soothed. “Dreams
make us think weird shit, forget the waking world. In ten minutes you’ll move
on to another sleep stage and forget all about this conversation.”
She tilted her head at him, and her strong jaw
had clenched around a teeth-baring snarl. The movement caught a ray of light,
and he could see her eyes sparkled with a haze of tears. “I’m not wrong or
crazy. If this is a dream, I can’t wake up.”
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Thanks for the excerpt, that sounds really good.
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