Sandpiper Run

Sandpiper Run  by Linda J Pifer

"Each session is like opening an old book to the first page; it always begins the same." Sunnie Reynolds

While on vacation with her parents at the age of ten, Sunnie Reynolds disappeared on a small island in Florida. She was found ten hours later, asleep and draped over a tree stump in a marsh. Returned to her parents, they put her into bed, but it was the last full night's sleep she would expertience. A repeating nightmare began to awaken her each night into adulthood.

She found ways to make up sleep and graduated high school. She chose real estate over college and went on to get her license, still influenced by chronic sleep deprivation and phobias of an unknown trauma. She continued therapy, but began to lose faith in it. 

At the age of twenty-two, during a business trip to the Gulf coast of Florida, Sunnie made a startling discovery and the nightmare entered reality to challenge her. Though at first overcome with panic, she gained strength to resist her fear with the guidance of her therapist and help from a new-found friend who'd lived on the island all of his life.