'I was falling. And he was going to catch me. I just knew he was.' For Megan Walden, life is all about perfection. She's the perfect friend, the perfect wife, the perfect office dogsbody, but what happens when she makes a decision that cracks the glass protecting her perfect little world? During a night-out in the shadow of her effervescent best friend, Megan meets Harper Cain and is instantly intrigued by the mysterious tattooed rocker-type with his trace of Bostonian accent and brooding darkness that lurks behind his smile. Knowing instinctively that she is playing with fire, and yet finding herself inexplicably drawn to the irresistible Harper, Megan embarks on a course that will destroy the foundations of her whole world and force her to question everything and everyone she has ever known. Plunging headlong into a nightmare she cannot stop, Megan realises too late that playing away with a mysterious stranger is the least of her worries. It's time for her perfect life to come to an end Will Harper catch her? Or will Megan be able to save herself?

***This story is currently under revision and will be reposted under the username @ephemorescent "Just because you're wordless doesn't mean you're powerless." Wren of Swansong - mute, lame, and brilliant. Having witnessed a tragedy as a young girl, Wren struggles to express herself under her overprotective mother's wings. She leaves her sleepy village for the great city of Leidblum, desperate to make something of herself. At Leidblum's School of Dreammaking, she meets an unlikely friend in cold, arrogant Kais Blackwood, who's just as equally gifted in dreammaking as she is, a tabby cat named Oliver, and an unconventional, charismatic teacher whose true motives seem to lie elsewhere. Something is stirring in the Blacklands, an unexplored place where the undreaming are said to be. Little does Wren know of her own lineage, an ancient line of Dreammakers from the rival country of Eyverlin.