In The Dreams and the Darkness, the first novel in the Legends of Allyoshmar series, a princess forced to marry a sadistic rapist, a farm-boy haunted by horrific nightmares, a girl who just wants to be loved, and an undead assassin with no memory, find themselves tangled in ancient conspiracies and struggling to survive when, after a thousand years of peace, the darkness everyone had forgotten about returns to their world.