For When Dreams Go

Isa and Brady

High school senior Isa Adams’ dreams cause cuts and bruises, car wrecks and broken bones, and sometimes even death to those she begins to care about. She is resolved to spend her life without friendship and love. How can she ever be kissed by a boy when just liking him could bring him harm? How can she have friends when just sitting near Felicia in class almost kills her?

When Brady Shae sits across from Isa in Art class, she is required to interact with him. To her surprise, she doesn’t dream harm on him, and as their friendship—and something more—grows, she begins to experience life as a normal teenage girl. However, her dreams soon change. They shift focus from people that she cares about to people that Brady cares about. Then they shift again.

Her dreams reveal Brady’s present-day troubles and the crooked past he tries to leave behind: running “errands” for a guy named Killer, caring for his mom who lies in a coma, and dodging child protection services from separating him and his little brother. Isa hopes to use her dreams to help Brady, but before long, she finds herself plunged into Brady’s struggles as his past catches up with him and his present-day troubles surge around him. And when that happens, her dreams put everyone in danger.

© Murphy Ellis