Blind the Eyes (Threads of Dreams #1)

In a world where hope kills and dreams are deadly, obedience is the only way to survive. But when one girl learns her society's absolute control and guarantee of safety are both illusions, she risks her hard-won status, her home and her life to rebel and expose its lies.

When haunted teen Cole discovers the state's guarantee of safety from the nightmarish Mara in exchange for obedience is a fraud, she realizes hers isn't the only life at stake. Cole needs allies to help her escape execution by nightmare and expose the lies. Now, with a ghost at her back, enforcers in pursuit, and a charismatic rebel leader gaslighting her, Cole must figure out who to trust to bring down the state and stop the dying before the nightmares eat her alive.

A YA dark fantasy about identity, trauma & taking back your choices. Ghosts and world-monsters in post-eco-disaster Vancouver.

Detailed synopsis:

Seventeen-year-old Cole hides a forbidden obsession with death from both the repressive, authoritarian Refuge and Cadence, the ghost who haunts her. Cole’s determined to shake her reputation as a failure, but when she spectacularly fails her probation trials and uncovers the dark lies at the heart of Refuge, her world crumbles around her.

Fleeing, she finds an ally in the charismatic leader of the glittering, permissive underground club and rebel enclave modeled after the seven colour halls of Poe's The Masque of the Red Death, Freedom. Ravel offers the chance to bring down Refuge's regime - along with a tantalizingly hedonistic new way of life. But as Cole struggles to fit in and meet Ravel’s expectations, she finds herself drawn into visions of death - and to the silver-shrouded boy who fights back, a boy Cadence claims to remember from her former life. In the waking world, Ravel seems less interested in toppling the Tower and more focused on transforming Cole into his ideal consort - and people are dying in more than just Cole’s visions.

To stop the dying and put an end to Refuge's lies, Cole will have to own the hidden power within and choose once and for all who to trust and what to be: an obedient drone, a hedonistic goddess, a solitary hero… or something else entirely.

Ebook, audiobook and print editions coming in Spring 2018.