Some Advanced Notes On Practical Dreaming

'Something waits for you in the darkness. And it already knows your name.'

At Auchter House, a mysterious university hidden away in the Scottish Highlands, only the most arcane of subjects are studied and only excellence will do. Auchter can teach you to speak forgotten languages, to time travel, to walk through dreams. It can also give you back your life.

Before Auchter Sam Sheridan was depressed, isolated and institutionalized three times before her eighteenth birthday. The university has given her everything - friends, purpose, a place that finally feels like home - and she knows that she could not live without it.

But then Sam's best friend goes missing. And Sam knows Auchter is to blame. Forced onto a rescue mission that will take her across continents, into the path of a mysterious hitman and in and out of dreams she will discover exactly how far she will go to protect the ones she loves - and how far she can trust in her own mind.

'On the other side of every dream is a nightmare. Welcome to Auchter House.'