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Hailey’s dreams have always been, well...vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid.

When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year old beast is an equally terrifying creature who has fallen “madly” in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety—a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive her ParaScience classes, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn’t decide to kill her himself.

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ISBN-13:	9781623422332
Publisher:	Omnific Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

C.M. McCoy is an Irish dancer and former military officer living in the Great White North. Though B.S.'d in chemical engineering and German from Penn State University, she's far happier writing stories involving Alaska and a body bag (with an awkward kiss in the mix.) While working 911 dispatch for Alaska State Troopers, she learned to speak in 10-codes, which she still does...but only to annoy her family. C.M. is represented by literary agent Michelle Johnson.

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05/15/2017
A teenager gets caught in a dangerous supernatural conflict in McCoy’s promising but overstuffed paranormal romance. Hailey Hartley’s dreams about a mysterious boy become much more vivid after her older sister is murdered. Soon after, Hailey meets him in the flesh: he’s an “Envoy” named Asher, responsible for ferrying life energy—released when someone dies—across dimensional planes. The Envoys have become trapped on Earth, Hailey could be the key to freeing them, and her life is in danger as a result. But first she’s off to Bear Towne University in remote Alaska to study “ParaScience,” though she isn’t necessarily safe there, given such hazards as invisible interdimensional portals and carnivorous splinters from man-eating trees. McCoy has fun fleshing out the details of Hailey’s life at Bear Towne, though it isn’t entirely clear how the many supernatural aspects of the novel fit together. Characters don’t always react in believable ways (at one point Hailey accepts a dinner invitation with the Envoy who killed her sister without argument), though readers who invest in Hailey’s story may be intrigued by a cliffhanger ending that sets up a sequel. Ages 14–up. (BookLife)

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2016-10-24
A young woman must deal with a missing sister and a peculiar university in this debut paranormal adventure. Hailey's life is not quite what it seems. She works with her sister Holly as a waitress at her family's pub in Pittsburgh, dancing for the crowd and teasing the friendly bartender, Fin. The bar is a popular local spot run by her Uncle Pix, who has taken care of the sisters since their parents died in a fire. In her dreams, Hailey sees a strange being named Asher. When Holly disappears, the normal veneer of Hailey's life begins to evaporate. She learns Asher is an Envoy, responsible for ferrying souls from the earthly world to the other side. He and his fellow Envoys are trapped in a realm between heaven and Earth, and Hailey's death would allow them to return home. One in particular, Cobon, is plotting to see this happen. Hailey's life changes when she leaves Pittsburgh for a university in The Middle of Nowhere, Alaska, where she learns of the paranormal world she's about to become a bigger part of. Fin is not what he seems either—he and Asher are both part of the university. And they both want to protect her, but they're at odds with each other, creating a complicated love triangle with Hailey's life hanging in the balance. There are obvious parallels to the Harry Potter series and the YA novels that followed in its wake. Hailey has to suddenly come to grips with a perilous new world and finds out she's more special than she thought she was. The university is populated with weird and wonderful characters, just as Hogwarts was in the Potter books. But McCoy has been careful to create her own mythology, familiar enough to draw in readers and unique enough to keep their interest. In Alaska, there are people-eating trees, yetis, and poltergeists. The Envoys can be terrible beasts, but Asher's struggle with his love for a human becomes compelling. Hailey is a strong character even when she doesn't realize it, which gives her an inviting vulnerability. And the revelations surrounding Fin as his story unfolds make for some delightful surprises. There are a lot of facets to recommend here, chief among them McCoy's worldbuilding ability and characters readers will surely want to see again. A charming and inventive tale with a brave heroine confronting romance and dangerous entities.

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