The Nightmare Keeper

Salem has never been a city that forgives the strange—and dream wielder Azalee Saunders has spent her entire life knowing exactly how little mercy it holds.

Gifted with the rare ability to enter and reshape the troubled minds of others, Azalee works in quiet defiance of a society that fears her kind. Her greatest adversary isn't the prejudice that shadows her every move, though. It's Gabriel Ford—heir to Salem's most powerful witching legacy and the one person who has made it his personal mission to see dream wielders erased from the city entirely. When a dangerous encounter forces Azalee to save his life, the universe rewards her with the worst possible outcome: Gabriel is now bound to her, carrying her powers whether he wants them or not.

Their uneasy truce barely has time to form before Salem's streets turn deadly. A string of brutal, inexplicable deaths grips the city, and the blame falls swiftly on dream wielders. But Azalee knows the truth—something far darker is hunting in the space between sleep and waking, something that wears nightmares like a second skin.

Now enemies who share a bond neither asked for must navigate dark magic, mounting suspicion, and a tension that crackles dangerously between hatred and something far more complicated. With a city on the edge of hysteria and a monster lurking in the shadows, Azalee and Gabriel must decide: trust each other, or lose everything.

Some nightmares, it turns out, have teeth.