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Inspired by true events, one girl’s life is changed forever when she foils a murder—and becomes a target herself. When imaginative eleven-year-old Emma and her parents and friends go to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest during the summer of 1985, she thinks it’ll be a normal family vacation. But when she starts dreaming of her loving Grandma Virginia killing people, she realizes there’s more to the sweet matriarch than she thought. And when she has a premonition that her grandmother intends to kill her husband, she knows she has to take matters into her own hands.

High school senior Mara Johnson is haunted by nightly dreams of serial killers and murders: a gift she’s been tormented with since she was a child. One night, when she dreams about the murder of her neighbor and discovers it’s true, she is determined to find the killer. But she quickly learns that the killer shares her gift and knows she’s dreaming about him. Mara must use her dreams to find him before he finds her.

It’s all well and good that Jeraline’s favorite storybook characters come to life to give her great advice - although it isn’t so helpful when she’s trying to compose herself around her workplace crush. But then her grandma gives her a gun for protection, and Jeraline accidentally shoots an attacker in the one place that embodies every one of her nightmares: the alley.