The Dream Defenders: 1

When fourteen-year-old Nolan Erling wakes up with a headache for the fourth straight day he suspects the likely culprit to be any number of things--from his annoying baby brother to vehicular crashes with his elderly neighbor or even his questionable late-night food choices--not his dreams.Aeryn Sandman knows the true cause though. She is a junior agent with the DREAM Institute a secret organization tasked with protecting the worlds population while they sleep and shes on her first assignment.Her mission: infiltrate Nolans life--and his dreams--and keep him safe all while persuading him to join their protective force.But recruitment missions are no walk in the park and Aeryns goes horribly wrong when Nolans powers unwittingly unleash two dream creatures locked away in a restricted area of the dream world. While Aeryn and Nolan search for ways to contain the escaped beings they uncover a much greater conspiracy.For these dreams can kill and someone is orchestrating their actions in the dream world. If Aeryn and Nolan cant figure out who is behind it no dreamer will be safe and neither will the organization that defends them.