Description

Fifteen-year-old Leah is ripped from her ordinary life when she is abducted by the monster under her bed. Dragged into Zzzodd, a fractured dreamworld stitched from childhood dreams and dangerous fantasies, she discovers a living world populated by sentient toys, monsters, and an ancient horror known as the Fragmented Master.

The Fragmented Master intends to devour her creative spark to restore his vitality and spread his nightmares into Zzzodd and the waking world. Hunted through a world where logic bends and magic obeys emotion, Leah must survive long enough to find her way home without unraveling Zzzodd itself. Here, dreams don’t just reflect reality…they create it. Whether that reality is molded into something beautiful, or twisted into something terrifying, depends entirely upon the Dreamer.

Unbeknownst to her, Leah is a Dreamer. A rare mind whose waking imaginings can reshape Zzzodd’s reality itself. Leah quickly learns that she is not an accidental arrival when Zzzodd warps around her presence. Mistaking her unspoken wish for command, her dreams reshape Zzzodd just enough to escape her monster…temporarily.

As Leah stumbles through this strange world, she forms a ragged fellowship with a collection of survivors caught in the avalanche of chaos her presence has wrought upon Zzzodd: Ralph, a giant pink stuffed bunny with anger issues; Rinkidinx, a teddy-bear bard whose music becomes literal magic; and Sir Whiskers, a mouse knight, with his trusty steed Marmalade, an orange tabby cat.

This novel balances high-energy battle sequences with intimate moments of loss, humor, and grief. Leah’s arc centers on learning to command her gift without becoming the monster it could create; the book culminates in a confrontation that forces moral choices about power, sacrifice and what it means to dream…not by conquering nightmare, but by reclaiming its innocence.

Trigger note:contains scenes of violence, partial body damage (toy-stuffing), and frightening imagery; younger middle-grade readers should be supervised.