Ronan dreams of a man called Bryde who tells him about someone who wants to kill him. He can’t be away from the Barns or from the ley line where he was born for too long, or the nightwash starts to kill him from the inside. A black ooze, or nightwash, is coming out of Ronan’s nose because he’s waited too long before manifesting dreams. He’s also thinking about moving closer to Adam. Adam is studying at Harvard, and Ronan is going to visit him. Gansey and Blue are taking a gap year and traveling. They kill Nathan, the brother of Carmen Farooq-Lane, one of the Moderators, with her help. The book starts with a group of people, part of an intergovernmental entity called Moderators, who are killing dreamers, or Zeds, because one of them is going to bring a fire that’s going to end the world. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Ĭarmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.

Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives – they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.Īnd then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming – they can only try to control it. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny.

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