Nightmares exist, as anyone who has woke screaming can attest. It is not as widely known that there is a universe of darkness beyond our understanding that is scratching at the walls of our world. It wants in so it can snuff out the light of all that lives.

Nyx is a fifteen-year-old girl hated by everyone she meets because their subconscious can sense the primordial darkness which dwells within her.

Shivers is an ordinary nightmare just doing his job in the Dream Realm to bring night terrors to sleeping humans.

Shivers is dragged into the waking world by Nyx. Unsure of what his disturbed teenage captor's plans for him are, the nightmare learns what it is to be afraid.

What does the girl in black want with a night terror? Will Shivers be killed? Or will he end up helping the teenaged Queen of Darkness by becoming her

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