Author Description

Jesse Benatar is a young man at war with the worlds on both sides of his skin. Haunted by memories of death and violence, most of which he had never witnessed, he rides a fine line between deliverance and self-destruction. Jesse's family, ravaged and fractured by his father's PTSD and death in Afghanistan, relocates to his mother's hometown on the Northern California coast. Once there, things quickly go strange for Jesse. The town, at a crossroads between the past and an uncertain future, is divided over a mysterious Spanish colony inhabited by Los Soñadores - The Dreamers. Jesse is pulled into the middle of the divide by his attraction to a young La Soñadora. She begins to haunt his dreams and when Jesse recognizes a parallel between the dreams and reality, the distinction between those two worlds begins to blur. The mystifying world of light and shadow in which he finds himself, challenges his beliefs about himself, life, and the concepts of good and evil.