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Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire…

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I love how the central theme of this fantasy book is morality. Though her family has always used their magical gift of dream walking to cause pain and death, Selene wants to break free of this cycle. All she’s ever known is the sinister deity The Dark Lady, but she starts to wonder if there might be a higher power at work. When she encounters the personification of a person’s soul in a dreamscape that is pure and luminous, she finds that she desperately desires that light in her own life. It is a powerful metaphor of a person who…

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