The Tethered: The Watcher, the Shield, and the Pyre - Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Paige has always been able to watch other people's nightmares. She never expected one of those nightmares to notice her back.

When Paige witnesses a classmate die inside a dream only to discover his death was horrifyingly real, she learns that she is a Tethered One, a rare person whose consciousness can cross the boundary between the waking world and the ether.

And something in the darkness has found her.

An ancient astral parasite known as Starved is feeding on sleeping victims throughout Ipswich, Massachusetts, ripping life from their bodies while hunting for the one prize powerful enough to tear open the barrier between worlds: Paige herself.

With Christina, her fiercely loyal best friend, and Gideon, a secretive young guide who understands the hidden rules of the ether, Paige must learn to transform her strange connection into a weapon. Warded iron, dreamwalking, supernatural abilities, fractured nightmare landscapes, and dangerous astral combat become their only defense as the boundary separating ordinary life from an ancient supernatural world begins to collapse.

But Christina carries a terrifying power of her own, and every victory against the darkness demands a price that cannot simply be taken back.

Set against the schools, streets, rivers, and shadows of coastal Massachusetts, The Tethered is a dark young adult urban fantasy combining supernatural horror, cosmic dread, visceral action, friendship, sacrifice, and a hidden war raging just beyond consciousness.

Fear always comes back.

And nothing is free.