
Dermot Nolan is an award-winning bestselling author who
seems to have it all—a successful career, fame, fortune, and
a beautiful wife. Between the royalties coming in from his
most recent book and the revenue he has received from the
film company that bought the rights, Dermot seems every bit
the literary darling. And yet, for the last year, he has
suffered from a bout of writer’s block, and in the process
has grossly overspent his income. So when Dermot comes
across an unsolicited manuscript stuffed into his mailbox,
he cannot help but feel intrigued. It tells the story of the
homicidal “Dream Healer,” who snares his victims via his
website, worstnightmares.net, seduces them into revealing
their innermost fears, and then kills them by revisiting
their very own nightmares upon them. Dermot, with the help
of his wife, begins to rework the novel, while
simultaneously researching the individual dream stories. In
his search, he very slowly begins to realize that the novel
may not be entirely fictional, that these poor characters
may have perished at the hands of a twisted torturer. Could
the Dreamhealer be real? Could these innocent cyber-surfers
have fallen victim to a raving maniac? Just how far is fact
from fiction? And could Dermot be writing his own ticket to
death...his very own worst nightmare?
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