The Dream Runner — Kerry Schafer

What if you could order a custom dream? Any kind. Dark and twisted, sweet, sensual, or redemptive. For the right price, a dream runner will deliver one to your doorstep.

Jesse Davison skipped town the week she turned sixteen, with nothing but the clothes on her back and her father's vintage Indian Scout motorbike. She swore never to return to the town where in one night of tragedy she lost everything she ever loved.

When news of her estranged mother's death calls her home, she hopes for some time to sort out ten years of tangled emotions. But Jesse's job doesn't exactly allow personal days. She's been forced into service as a runner by the Dream Merchant to pay back a debt for her own dream of revenge, and there are always orders to fill.

Struggling to figure out her mysterious inheritance is more than enough to get a girl down, and things get even worse when the man Jesse loathes -- ex-boyfriend Will Alderson -- shows up. But she soon discovers the person she's been running from might just be the one she should be running towards. Too bad she's been dreaming of killing him for the past ten years.


"[Kerry Schafer's] writing is fluid, it sucked me in, and it immersed me fully into the world of The Dream Runner." â€" Kinsey Corwin, A Southern Girl Reads