The Dream Defenders Series

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 world's population while they sleep, and she's on her first assignment. Her mission: infiltrate Nolan's 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 Aeryn's goes horribly wrong when Nolan's 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 can't figure out who is behind it, no dreamer will be safe, and neither will the organization that defends them.

Nolan Erling is alive and well. Only he doesn't know why. After surviving the violent Deathmare attack, he hopes he might find answers as he begins training at the DREAM Institute. Unfortunately, getting answers and learning how to navigate and manipulate his dreams is far more difficult than he imagined, and things only become more confusing when he discovers there are more victims like himself. People are dying in their sleep, only to wake up days later in the morgue. When Aeryn Sandman is officially brought in to investigate, it doesn't take long for her to discover something far more sinister going on. These victims may be waking, but their return to the land of the living comes at a cost. Someone in the dream world is ripping their souls apart and keeping the pieces for themselves. As Aeryn and Nolan discover the truth behind who is responsible, the attacks strike closer and closer to home. The pair must decide how much they are willing to risk to put a stop to the perpetrator because there are far worse things than dying in the dream world, and no one around them is safe. Strap in and get your defense ready. The Dream Defenders are heading on another wild adventure!

Nolan Erling has no recollection of the dream world or the organization that governs it.   Following the events at the Spring of Souls, the DREAM Institute has carried out Nolan's punishment, wiping his mind and exiling him to a mundane life in the Midwest. But the world of slumber isn't done with him yet, and Nolan is thrust back into the Dreamstream when a strange girl invades his dreams-and his life-insistent his head has been tampered with.   With multiple parties vying for his attention, it becomes evident he knows-or knew-something important, and there are those who will stop at nothing to recover what was once in his head.   The road to reclaiming his missing memories is fraught with danger, and along the way Nolan discovers his lost knowledge may hold the key to protecting the delicate barrier between the real world and the dream world from those who wish to tear it down.   But knowledge can be a dangerous thing, even more so in the wrong hands. Can Nolan separate friend from foe and restore what was taken from him in time to prevent irreparable damage to both the dream world and real world alike?

When a vengeful dreamer threatens the soul of every dreamer on the planet, can the Dream Defenders locate an ancient dreamscape in time to foil her plan?   Nolan's first few months at the DREAM Institute have been anything but normal, and that trend continues when an annual contest takes center stage. The Hero's Hunt, a fierce competition designed to test the skills of their most talented dreamers, offers up prestige and prize money to the winner, but when outside forces interfere in the competition, the entire organization is left reeling.   A rogue dreamer—a woman familiar to Nolan—has come seeking revenge for past wrongs. Fueled by vengeance, this dreamer will stop at nothing to bring the Institute to its knees. Her threats lead them on a chase through the dream world, pointing them toward an ancient dreamscape responsible for ensuring the safety of every dreamer on the planet. The only problem: this dreamscape has been lost for centuries.   Finding what is lost is never easy, especially when it is something never intended to be found. To do so, Nolan faces impossible choices, and he must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice to protect the slumbering souls of humanity.

Classes at the DREAM Institute are supposed to be informative and safe, but they've never had a student like Nolan Erling.   When Penchant Downing drops in for a guest lecture, Nolan can't wait to wow his favorite oneironaut with his navigation skills in the dream world, but his hopes to impress Penchant take a hit when he's forced to spend the lesson paired up with his least favorite classmate, Parker Bogman.   The two boys reluctantly band together to face off with their fellow students in a fierce competition to earn some extra credit points. When an argument sends them off track, they find themselves lost and isolated from the rest of the group in a strange dreamscape where nothing is as it seems.   Unable to wake or contact their teachers, their only hope of escaping lies in the center of a mysterious maze. Fraught with danger and full of puzzles, the pair must learn how to work together to find a way out, otherwise they might just end up stuck there forever, and forever is a long time to spend with your worst enemy.