Green Dreams - Black Dreams, #3

Green Dreams is the third novel of this award-winning author's post-apocalyptic epic Black Dreams Series.  Islander families fragmented during the chaotic plague years either through death, dislocation, or baby-hungry kidnappings now seek to salvage some sense of wholeness. Waverly's search is for her daughter, kidnapped eight years ago by mainlanders. In the last book, Black Dreams, Silver Linings, her search turned up a brother she had thought long dead.
Her niece also resurfaced. And while Waverly's search for her daughter continues to be frustrated, new information gleaned through plague gifts and plague survivors give her new leads and renewed hope. The worst of the plague years are over, yet isolated cases still occur. Mainlanders abhor the mere mention of the plague to the point of denying outbreaks in their midst. On the other hand, islanders continue their controversial research into what they consider the plague's coveted gifts.
The intriguing dimension of consciousness reached during the plague delirium is explored via lucid dreaming techniques, brain wave training, and archetypal dream interpretation. This, in turn, leads to a discovery by islanders of yet another way to access this rich dimension and another way for families like Waverly's to return to a sense of wholeness. "Gretchen Hummel has created a rich, complex world that's both beautiful and scary."                    --Alison Baker, O.
Henry Award Winner Gretchen Hummel is a 2011 Writer's Digest Award finalist and a 2011 USA Best Books Award finalist in two categories. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing as well as a Master of Science in Psychiatric Nursing.