Sing Sweet Nightingale

Seventeen-year-old Mariella has not said a word in four years, and it is not because she can't: it is because she won't. She has nothing to say because no one would believe there is a world she can only visit in her dreams. And no one would understand why Mariella promised her silence to Orane, the man who introduced her to this world. Hudson is only eighteen, but he has survived a lot -- including a run-in with creatures he calls the "dream demons", creatures he blames for the recent death of his four-year-old brother. Struggling to cope in the aftermath of this loss -- and guided by signs even the practical Hudson cannot ignore -- he moves to a new town and comes face-to-face with the one thing he never thought he would see: another victim of the demons. Mariella and Hudson have both been chosen by demons from a world that exists within ours, a world where beauty and magic mask cruelty and greed. Hudson has seen the gruesome reality of these beings, but Mariella is still in their thrall. She is in love with her captor, Orane, and is convinced she does not need saving. It is up to Hudson to show her the truth about the demons before she is lost in their world forever.