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Sidelined by an on the job injury, veteran paranormal investigator Maureen Keslyn reluctantly accepts an assignment at Shadow Valley Manor, an upscale retirement facility where someone - or something - is picking off residents and staff at a grisly clip.

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Veteran paranormal investigator Maureen Keslyn never asked for life to be easy - for her, nothing is more invigorating than hunting down and ending a dangerous paranormal adversary. Fortunately, life at Shadow Valley Manor tends to be a little more...interesting...than the experience at your average retirement community.

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When the body of Shadow Valley resident Dason Williams is discovered in his mother’s basement it appears to be a clear-cut case of suicide, but seasoned paranormal investigator Maureen Keslyn knows otherwise. A photograph on the dead man’s wall links him to a murdered teenage girl whose body bears the marks of a dangerous paranormal creature known as the Medusa. Convinced that the Medusa is on a killing spree, Maureen joins forces with an unwieldy team - Jake, the local sheriff, Matt, the Shadow Valley Manor cook, and Sophronia, a teenage girl with an uncanny affinity for ghosts.

Ever since Jesse Davison returned to her hometown, life has gotten progressively more complicated. The mystery around her mother's death just keeps growing deeper. Her lover, Will, the only person she can trust, has been pressed into service by the Dream Merchant as a Collector - a soul sucking job Jesse didn't even know existed.

The underground dream trade is growing hotter by the second, and the Dream Merchant's top delivery girl Jesse Davison wants out. She knows the ugly truth - that playing around with dreams can drive you crazy, or worse. Strange things begin happening as she investigates the circumstances surrounding her mother's death in the sleepy mill town of Williamsville. Her ex-boyfriend Will's father remembers her in an instant, despite his sudden and severe dementia.

When news of her estranged mother's death calls her back to the hometown she swore she'd never set foot in again, Jesse Davison hopes for some time to sort out ten years of tangled emotions. But her job doesn't exactly allow personal days. She's been forced into service as a runner by the Dream Merchant to pay back a debt for her own dream of revenge, and there are always orders to fill.