Dreamland
An intimate Gothic novel about family secrets and desire by bestselling sensation Olivie Blake
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Publisher Description
From No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Olivie Blake comes Dreamland, a hauntingly seductive Gothic mystery where the glitz of Los Angeles collides with the dark shadows of the Hollywood elite.
Fame makes monsters of us all . . .
Summer winds sweep a feverish energy through Los Angeles as girls are found murdered. Yet despite wildfire warnings and the rising body count, Anya Morris finds her mind elsewhere. Her Hollywood break fell through – and after losing out, she’s ready to risk it all.
Enter actor William de Witt, an aging icon offering a cryptic bargain: if Anya spends time with his son Jude, a man sequestered by mysterious health issues, William will grant her access to Hollywood’s inner circles. Yet within the de Witt estate, the air is heavy with old blood and unspoken secrets.
Drawn to Jude’s dark magnetism, Anya wonders if the house is cursed or if Jude is touched by the occult. How far will the elite go to secure their fame? And as the city burns, could Anya also sell her soul to achieve her dreams?
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PRAISE FOR DREAMLAND
‘A gory, gothic masterpiece’
– Alix E Harrow
‘Thrilling . . . a deft and deeply unsettling examination of power’
– Alexis Henderson
‘The plot is thrilling, the prose is densely voluptuous, broken up by Blake’s trademark dark humour’
– Brigitte Knightley
‘A dizzying and atmospheric fever dream of a novel . . . I didn’t want it to end!’
– Monika Kim
Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 28 Feb 2022.
Gifted & Talented was a No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 14 April 2025.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A serial killer stalks Los Angeles as a young aspiring actor becomes entangled in a Hollywood family's dark secrets in this inventive but disorienting gothic genre-bender from bestseller Blake (the Atlas series). Anya Morris, the 22-year-old mixed-race daughter of a hard-working Filipino mother, wants nothing more than to be a successful actor. She scores a job in the home of movie star William de Witt looking after the family's mysterious secret scion, Julian, who is a couple of years older than Anya, hidden away from the world, and supposedly epileptic. As Anya is drawn into the de Witt family's surreal world, she soon learns how far she's willing to go to achieve her goals. Meanwhile, women's dismembered bodies keep turning up around the city, all while the sweltering Santa Ana winds put everyone on edge. Anya is often detached from the bizarre events going on around her, keeping readers, too, at arm's length, and Blake's characteristically lush prose sometimes conceals more than it illuminates. Still, readers looking for a cerebral mystery with no easy answers will appreciate this one.
