Dreams Lie Beneath

Azenor has lived under a curse for years. On every new moon, magic pours down from a mountain near the town where Clementine Madigan lives and turns nightmares into real things. Magicians act as territory wardens, and they are the only defence people have against their worst dreams.

Clementine expects to take over as warden of her small town from her father. Then two magicians arrive to challenge him for his domain, and she is pulled into a conflict that is a century old. She loses her home, and she wants revenge on the people who took it.

To get close to the enemy, she hides who she really is. One of the two magicians, Phelan, is young and irritatingly handsome, and the closer she gets to him, the more secrets and the beginnings of romance come to the surface. The curse keeps turning up wherever the two of them go, so she has to work alongside the rival who came to claim her birthright.

This is a fantasy romance built on enemies becoming allies, with a revenge plot and a double identity driving it. The mood is dark and tense, with nightmares as the constant threat, and the attraction between the leads is as risky as the curse itself. Phelan may be hiding something worse than anything the new moon brings.