Witch Dreams

Nyssa, who is 16, has the ability to share a person's dream. There are different kinds of dreams, and she dreams a true-memory one, remembering things as they happened. She was ten and her father had slapped her and called her a witch, threatening to send her to a convent. She was outside her house with her brother when they hear something happen.

Her brother goes into the house and finds the parents killed and he himself is badly injured. Nyssa ends up working as a servant girl for a wool merchant, and she blames herself for her father's death, feeling that she could have done something to prevent it.

She's sure she knows who killed them, but she wasn't there to see him and swear to that in court. His parents had lots of money and he was never convicted of the murders.

She gets a coin the supposed murderer threw at her (in the present time) and plans to use it to get into his dreams. Things go bad when she finds out he's not the one. Worse yet, she leaves her job after she gets a beating for being late to work.

She still is desperate to find out who actually killed her parents. To do so involves trusting someone she never trusted, and attempting to see into the dreams of something that is not human.

It's a fairly good book. I sort of guessed what actually happened, but there were various elements that I had not anticipated.

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