The Dream Runners

Tanvi was taken from the mortal world when she was ten. Now seventeen, she lives in Nagalok, a kingdom of serpentine naga who feed on dreams, and works there as a dream runner. Her memories of her earlier life have been wiped away.

Every night she and the other captive mortals climb out of the underground realm to collect dreams from sleeping humans. The harvest goes to Lord Nayan, a naga dream broker, and to his mortal apprentice Venkat.

One harvest goes wrong, and disturbing images of Tanvi's past surface. Frightened and unsure what they mean, she goes to Venkat. He is the dreamsmith who shapes what the runners gather into the kingdom's most coveted product.

The two start looking for answers together. What they uncover is a terrible truth, one with the power to turn Nagalok from a place of dreams into a place of waking nightmare.

The book is fantasy with a dark undercurrent, built around a girl who must piece together who she was.