Sleep therapist Sophie Dunston has been living a nightmare since witnessing her father attempt to kill her entire family. Recovered physically from her wounds, she devotes her life to protecting her son and to destroying Sanborne, the man responsible for turning her life's work, REM-4, into a weapon.
Matt Royd has his own reasons for going after Sanborne. Used as a guinea pig in the REM-4 studies, he's struggled to overcome the mind-altering effects of the drug Sophie helped to create. Believing Sophie to be his connection to Sanborne, Royd is willing to risk everything to bring Sanborne's evil to an end.
Sending her son to Scotland and into the protection of MacDuff and Jane MacGuire, Sophie joins forces with Royd. Their quest takes them to a small island, where they must battle stone-cold assassins to save the locals from a poisoned water supply and nightmare existence.
Johansen has created a taut thriller in KILLER DREAMS. The premise of this story is frighteningly realistic. Sophie and Royd are tough, driven, sympathetic characters, and Sanborne and his cronies are chillingly heartless. Fans of Johansen are going to love her latest thriller and will enjoy the connection to past characters and storylines.
If you close your eyes, heβll get you. Sophie Dunston
knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the
nationβs top sleep therapists, she specializes in the life-
threatening night terrors that her ten-year-old son,
Michael, suffers from. But she is also an expert in
another kind of terror --the kind that can turn a dream
life into a living nightmare in the blink of an eye.
Someone is watching. Heβs a shadowy figure from out of her
darkest fears and he hasnβt forgotten her. In one shocking
moment of violence, heβd shattered Sophieβs world forever
and left her with only one thing to live for: her son. But
the nightmare isnβt over for Sophie Dunston. Itβs just
begun. Heβs been waiting. Sophie was supposed to die the
first time around, but fate intervened. This time heβll
make sure that not even a miracle will save her.
It wasnβt a miracle that saved Jock Gavin, but it was
pretty close. A semiretired hit man, commando, and jack-of-
all-deadly-trades, he knows what Sophie is up against --
and that sheβll need help. But the man heβs chosen for the
job is as unpredictable as he is dangerous. Matt Royd is a
wild card-hard, cool, merciless -- and putting him into
play changes the game completely. But to whose advantage?
Sophie will soon find out. She will have to trust Royd
because she has no choices left. Because the bogeyman
haunting her dreams is all too real and heβs on the hunt
again. Because the nightmare heβs got planned for Sophie
wonβt end when she wakes up screaming. It wonβt end. Ever.
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