The Nightmare Foundry

About this book

In the mist-shrouded realm of Veilholm, colossal crystal trees store the collective dreams of slumbering citizens, and nightmares are harvested as fuel for the city's enchanted forges. Twelve-year-old Vana Baronian, a scavenger with storm-gray skin and a rare curse-gift that allows her to taste the residue of dreams, scrapes by in the shadows of this arcane metropolis. When a catastrophic explosion in the forge district releases a contagion of gore-soaked illusions, Vana unwittingly consumes a fragment of a tampered ore, flooding her mind with visions of a sinister conspiracy. High Weaver Thorne Blackroot, a gaunt schemer with golden prosthetic hands, is forging false dreams to addict the nobility and poison the Great Canopy—the heart of Veilholm. As the city teeters on the brink of 'Nightfall,' a plague where suppressed guilts manifest as physical monstrosities, Vana must ally with a goblin-touched boy named Aris and a spectral dream-hound. Together, they plunge into the city's terrifying underbelly to expose the truth before their world is consumed by its own nightmares.