Seventeen-year-old dreamwalker, Em, might have to choose-leave her mother forever in the dreamworld or save the life of hot, rebel Gabe. Emily Dal Monte and her mother, Lily, are special. They're humans with a glitch in their genetic code that allows them to explore their fantastic, and often terrifying, world of their dreams for as long as they choose to remain asleep. But when Em's father is killed in a tragic accident and her distraught mother loses herself more and more in the dreams of her crumbling mind, Em is forced to support the two of them the only way she knows how, by writing down her mother's amazing dreams and selling them as books. Enter Gabriel Sobel, the handsome punk newcomer at Em's high school who realizes Em is the daughter of his favorite, reclusive author. Gabe can't figure out why Em keeps brushing him off and makes it his mission to find out what's really go-ing at the Dal Monte household. He stumbles upon their shocking family secret just as Lily takes a turn for the worse. It's up to Em, Gabe, and one very nosy book editor to hop from one ex-traordinary dream to the next to find Lily and convince her to wake up before she loses her mind...and before Em loses her first chance at love.