It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. But there are also opportunities-and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville-derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. When Andrea finds a tent in which her brother’s darkest nightmare has been brought to life, she realizes the dark truth: Reverie is not an escape it’s a trap. But Andrea soon realizes that not all of Reverie’s dreams are meant to delight, and the Sandman behind the circus tents seems to have plans of his own. Once inside, Andrea discovers tent after tent of dreams come alive she can fly on a gust of wind, brave swashbuckling pirates and search for buried treasure, reach for–and wish on–a tangible star, and much, much more. And she knows exactly which memory she’d like to give up. But the cost of admission is high: Andrea must give up a memory in order to enter. So when she discovers a magical dream world called Reverie in the woods near her home, Andrea jumps at the chance to escape her pain and go inside.

Her world turned upside down, and there was nothing she could do to right it. The Circus of Stolen Dreams b y Lorelei SavarynĪfter Andrea’s brother, Francis, disappeared, everything changed.

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