Iris Thorne is a cartographer of impossible spaces. Diagnosed with a terminal illness, she spends her days mapping the only territory she has left: the dreams of others.
Her search for refuge leads her to the dream world of Theo Chen, a brilliant composer locked in a deep coma, where he builds cathedrals of music and symphonies of light.
What begins as an escape becomes an impossible love. But as their connection deepens, it begins to bend the laws of physics, and Iris's time starts running out faster than predicted.
The only hope to wake Theo is a dangerous experimental procedure that requires Iris to act as a neural bridge-an act that could cost her the few precious weeks of life she has left.
To save the man she loves, she must risk becoming a ghost in the machine of his mind. But what happens when the only person who can wake him is the woman who has no time left to love him in the real world?
For fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Blake Crouch's Recursion, THE DREAM THIEF is a heart-wrenching speculative romance that asks: what would you sacrifice for a love that can only exist in dreams?
