Nightmares

A girl named Taina can slip into other worlds—like through a looking glass. Following her into a sinister amusement park, into a children’s home for kids with unusual abilities, and further, further—we find ourselves in a dark fairy tale, at times frightening, with its own strange rules. But Taina’s trail isn’t followed only by us: for mysterious reasons, a girl with a pale face like a harlequin is searching for her—the Queen of Pleasance. With her are a large striped Cat and the detective White Rabbit…

“Nightmares” is the first book in the series “Noctambula” by Tamara and German Rylsky, in the genre of postmodern mystical fantasy. “Noctambula” comes from the Latin noctis—“night” and ambulare—“to wander.”