Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dream walking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate.
As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy - a legacy that supports her people - or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.
Her dilemma comes to a head when she is tasked with assassinating the one man who can bring peace to the nations, but who will also bring about the downfall of her own house.
One path holds glory and power, and will solidify her position as Lady of Ravenwood. The other path holds shame and execution. Which will she choose? And is she willing to pay the price of the path chosen?
I really enjoyed reading this book. It has a wonderful 'heroine' in Selene, who has a truly ferocious mother and a jealous sister. The 'dreamwalking' is a fascinating concept, used very cruelly by some, and is a 'gift' which has been hidden for years while the other Great Houses believe it to have died out. Selene's 'coming of age' and the awakening of her gift is so well described you can almost feel it yourself. And then she is flung in the middle of a deadly power struggle - with her mother demanding she becomes an assassin... If you're a fan of fantasy fiction, or even if you just like the occasional fantasy novel, don't miss this one!
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