Dreamland
A Novel
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes a tantalizing story of power, seduction, and the omens you’ll ignore when everything you’ve dreamed of feels just within reach.
The headlines are calling it the "summer of exsanguination" in LA—girls are being murdered, the Santa Ana winds are blowing a strange energy into the city, and all signs point to fire season.
More pressing for Anya Morris, though, is the drudgery of living at home, working part time at the family store, and contending with her mother's disdain for the acting career Anya knows she's destined for but that feels more impossible by the day.
It’s in this suffocating late summer heat that Anya receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, an invitation to work for the de Witt family, one of LA’s most influential film dynasties. Soon, she’s spending her days and nights at their strange villa high in the Hollywood hills, where she meets Jude, a recluse who is both the family’s heir apparent and its most closely guarded secret.
There’s a magnetism to Jude that Anya cannot resist, despite warning signs that scream like sirens in the night. Because the villa holds generations of bloodstained history, and an occult family curse may even live within its walls—or within Jude himself.
In this city, everyone cuts a deal with the devil. When Anya comes face to face with a devil of her own, she’ll learn just how far she’s willing to go to get everything she’s ever wanted.
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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.
