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Nineteen-year-old Ness used to be terrified of Nightmares - people who'd turned into their worst fears while they slept. Now, after two assassination attempts, an explosion, and a bargain with a demon, she's finally free of her terror. But Nightmares aren't the only dangerous thing in Newham. And Ness still has to reckon with her other fears - including her fear of mortality. It's easy to die in Newham, but hard to live. So when the monster responsible for creating Nightmares asks her for a favour, she agrees.

Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified—terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that's monstrous only in appearance, or transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim.

Plucky inventor and aspiring hero Jet Chow was 10 when the world (as we know it) ended in a flood of shuffling undead bodies. The zombie plague ceased with the dispersal of a cure, but society collapsed, and humanity became an endangered species. Orphaned in the disaster, Jet survived for over three years in a prepper's off-grid shelter in a Wichita backyard. When his resources run out, he is forced into a quest for food and shelter, which turns into a search for the rumored last outpost of humanity: Echo Falls.