Furthermore, Janie receives documents from her now-deceased dream-catcher mentor promising to detail the fate in store for her, and she's not sure she wants to know the truth. The latter task annoys protective Cabe, and their relationship, already strained by a scarcity of alone time and the need for secrecy (their last case might be jeopardized if they are seen together), is further stressed.

Janie is a dream catcher-she has the ability to be sucked into another person's dreams-and her job is to glean clues to the culprit's identity from her classmates and to act as bait. Not only is her fate as a dream catcher sealed, but what’s to come is way darker than she’d feared…School Library JournalGr 9 Up This intriguing, if not quite stand-alone, sequel to Wake (S & S, 2008) follows undercover investigators and high school seniors Janie Hannagan and her partner/boyfriend Cabel as they attempt to unmask and trap a sexual predator teaching at Fieldridge High. Janie’s in way over her head, and Cabel’s shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both.Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability and it’s bleak. When Janie taps into a classmate’s violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open but nothing goes as planned. Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High, yet nobody’s talking. They’re just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck.

For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams.

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