Publisher's Synopsis
The Alchemist is dead. For epochs, Time's City has existed under the constant chiming of the clock tower which served as his prison, but now the Alchemist is dead. His defeat did not come freely: in the process of stopping the Alchemist from escaping, Time's favorite Hour, a vampire named Sebastian Jaeger, lost both his body and his status as Time's Twelfth Hour. Now with the Alchemist dead and one Hour gone, the old magics that have held the city together for so long are beginning to crumble, leaving its denizens vulnerable to the attacks of some of the most ancient beings imaginable. There's only one person that Time knows who might be able to stop the city of Sanctuary from falling apart, but Lia Caglione is facing problems of her own... Something is preying on the dreams of witches and killing them in their sleep; as the first Dreamwalker in over 800 years, it falls to Lia to figure out what that something is and to stop it. But Lia only discovered her powers a few months ago, and frankly, she'd rather go back to living her normal life than try to figure them out--that is until she begins to dream of the final moments of the creature's victims. Now determined on keeping her dreams nightmare free, Lia has to team up with the last person she wants to deal with: the vampire uncle of Time's late Twelfth Hour. Over 2,000 years old, possessing all the social finesse of a nine year old, and belonging to one of the most prominent families of the modern world, Cavan Jaeger has the means and knowledge to put Lia on the beaten path of her predecessors so that she can find and stop the terror that turns dreams to nightmares...Now if only she weren't so hell-bent on being normal.
