The Nightmare Thief

Fans of Natalie Lloyd will be swept away by this whimsical middle-grade debut about a girl, her family’s dream shop, and a nightmare thief determined to change the course of her life as she knows it



Twelve-year-old Maren loves working in her family's dream shop where she can hand-craft any dream imaginable. The shop has only one rule. Dreams cannot be given to a person without their consent. Maren has no problem with this—until her sister has an accident that leaves her in a coma. Maren's certain she can cure Hallie with a few well-chosen dreams. Figuring nobody will find out, she slips Hallie a flying dream.



When her sister smiles and laughs for a few seconds, Maren is sure her cure is working. But a strange new customer from the shop has been following Maren. And she's laid the perfect trap to blackmail Maren into creating custom dreams for her…but they aren't just dreams, they are nightmares. As things get more dangerous for Maren, she has to make a choice: protect her family or protect the unknown dreamers out there from her family's magic.