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Sara's got a new job, in a new town...but her dreams are following her. If you want to talk about what happens next, this is the place...

I'll keep it simple. Comment in this thread. Tell me which of the Dream Series books you'd like to read (or listen to) and why, and Friday (May 16th) at 7 PM I'll pick a winner, and you'll get the ebook (or audiobook) of your choice.

Here are all the books so far:

"I wish someone - my mother, my husband, anybody - would really let me have it, instead of telling me everything's not my fault when it obviously is..."

Sara's seen the cost of interfering in other people's dreams firsthand; it's measured in ruined lives and cemetery plots.

When her supernatural dreams start up again, Sara is faced with problem after problem. And the only solution she can see is the one she's sworn never to attempt - changing the minds of the dreamers from the inside-out.

Sara thought that fighting against serial killers, mobsters and crooked politicians was difficult, but she's about to come up against the most difficult foe she's ever faced: her own conscience.

And there you have it. Sara goes back to college, and her dreams go with her. Want to know more about it? Curious about the returning characters in this book? Wondering anything else about the story or how it came to be? This is the place to ask!

“Oh, God! We can hurt each other. Whatever we do to each other in the dream, we’ll do it to ourselves for real…”

When her own dreams are visited by a mysterious woman in a red dress, Sara realizes she has something she never expected: a counterpart, someone outside her family who shares her talent to see other people’s dreams.

When the woman in red keeps showing up in other dreams as well, leaving ruined lives in her wake, Sara knows she has something she never imagined: a nemesis.

Now, Sara must track the woman in red down in the waking world, before she’s forced to fight for her life in her dreams…

Well, that about says it all, plotwise. Sara meets her evil counterpart. So if you're curious about how it happens, why it happens, what it all means, or anything else in this book, this is the place to ask!

"Why is this so hard for me? Why am I having so much trouble? Why do I feel so helpless, so hopeless? What the hell is wrong with me?"

After tangling with murders and mobsters, not to mention medical school and three years of residency, Sara thought she could handle anything. And then the police show up without warning at her new office and arrest her for a crime she can't possibly have committed. Sara's confidence, and her grip on reality, is shattered during one terrifying night in jail.

Now, the very dreams that have endangered her life and driven her to the edge of madness may be the only thing that can help Sara find herself again...

Well, there you go.

"Dream Family" is, I think, the best-written book of the series. It's also definitely the darkest and most emotional. If there's anything you want to know about the book, how it came to be written, or anything else, ask away!

"I would give anything to take this away from her. I would gladly go back to having the nightmares myself – the very worst ones, the ones that had me waking up screaming in a pool of my own vomit – rather than see Lizzie go through this..."

As a resident at Children's Hospital, Sara can handle ninety hour workweeks, fighting to save her young patients from deadly childhood diseases. But she's about to be faced with a challenge that all her training and experience haven't prepared her for: her four-year-old daughter has inherited her ability to see other people's dreams...

That's the basic idea of the book, but let's get more in-depth. What do you want to know about Sara, Lizzie, the supernatural dreams of a toddler, or anything else about "Dream Child" ?

“I didn’t expect to be woken up by someone I don’t know dreaming about killing somebody. I thought I was done with that once and for all…”

But Sara’s not done with it. As if adjusting to life as a newlywed and starting medical school weren’t difficult enough, she’s started seeing the dreams of everyone around her, again. Before everything is said and done, those dreams might destroy Sara’s hopes of becoming a doctor, wreck her marriage and even end her life…

The second book in the series takes Sara to medical school. Follow along with her, and ask me any questions that the book might have raised for you...

What would you do if you could see other people’s dreams? If you could watch their hidden fantasies and uncover their deepest, darkest secrets…without them ever knowing?

Sara Barnes is about to find out. She thought that all she had to worry about was final exams, Christmas shopping and deciding whether she likes the cute freshman in the next dorm who’s got a crush on her.

But when she starts seeing dreams that aren’t hers, she learns more than she ever wanted to know about her friends, her classmates…and a strange, terrifying man whose dreams could get Sara killed.

That's what it says on Amazon about "Dream Student." What do YOU say about it?

Feel free to ask anything about the book - both what's on the page and how it got that way, or anything else you're curious about...

That's me. Ask me anything about my books, or anything else you want to know!