num_pages: 384
description: Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare.Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrifiedterrified 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 thats monstrous only in appearance to transforming into a twisted unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city no one is safe. Ness will do anything to avoid becoming another victim even if that means lying low among the Friends of the Restful Soul a questionable organization that may or may not be a cult.But being a member of maybe-cult has a price. In order to prove herself Ness cons her way into whats supposed to be a simple job for the organizationonly for it to blow up in her face. Literally. Tangled up in the aftermath of an explosive assassination now Ness and the only other survivora Nightmare boy who Ness suspects is planning to eat hermust find their way back to Newham and uncover the sinister truth behind the attack even as the horrors of her past loom ominously near.
language: English
title: City of Nightmares
publisher: Clarion Books