In a land where some individuals have the gift of dreamhunting, a large group gathers to enjoy the talents of celebrated dreamhunter Grace Tiebold and her rendition of a delightful dream called Homecoming. Instead they find themselves plunged into a horrific nightmare about being buried alive, and chaos erupts. Tiebold’s teenage daughter, Laura, has used her monumental dreamhunting strength to impose the buried alive nightmare on the unsuspecting dream-goers in an effort to raise awareness of political corruption and the governmental misuse of shared dreams to manipulate society. Book Two of the “Dreamhunter Duet” picks up right where the beautifully-written tale that began in Dreamhunter (Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) left off. While Laura deals with increasing government suspicion, she also struggles with conflicting feelings for Sandy, a fellow dreamhunter, and is consumed with the fate of the sand-creature, Nown, that she brought to life to help her on her quest to expose corruption and find her missing father. Meanwhile, Laura’s cousin Rose has had to let go of her own hopes of being a Dreamhunter, and the two girls’ lives are drifting apart. With a complicated plot that demands the full attention of its audience, Knox’s wholly original story concept grapples with real-world issues and ends with an epilogue that may raise more questions than it answers.(Age 13 and older)

The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St. Lazarus's Eve, when elite citizens gather at the Rainbow Opera to experience the sweet dream of Homecoming, Laura, determined to show them the truth, plunges them into the nightmare used to control the convict workers. The event marks the first blow in the battle for control of the Place, the source of dreams. Then, when Laura's cousin, Rose, uncovers evidence that the government has been building a secret rail line deep into the Place, Laura follows it to find out what lies at its end. As she struggles to counter the government's sinister plans, a deeper mystery surfaces, a puzzle only Laura can unravel, a puzzle having to do with the very nature of the Place. What is the Place, after all? And what does it want from her?

Inventive and richly imagined, Elizabeth Knox's dramatic conclusion will satisfy readers - whether or not they've read Book One.