Every dream a nightmare.
And every nightmare...real.

It's been eight years since the car accident that stole Callie's voice and plagued her with terrifying nightmares every night. Four years since her family wrote her off as a lost cause and abandoned her at a boarding school for troubled teens. Despite friction with some of the other residents, seventeen-year-old Callie has nevertheless thrived in a place where they don't expect her to be normal, but she's not sure she's able to thrive anywhere else.

Then one night, a man who calls himself the Guardian pulls her into a subterranean world filled with all the monsters from her dreams and ruled by the Night Mare herself. Down in the darklands, Callie's nightmarish creations worship her. Down in the darklands, she isn't tired or sick or hungry.

Down in the darklands, she can speak.

As her waking life deteriorates under the weight of exhaustion and other complications, Callie's nightly forays into the nightmare world also begin to take their toll. And it's getting harder to tell which world is really the nightmare.