Dreamers Often Lie

Liar meets Romeo and Juliet in this Shakespeare-inspired young adult novel about trusting yourself when everyone is telling you your instincts are wrong. Jaye wakes up in the hospital, disoriented and beset by a slippery morphing of reality into something else. She repeatedly sees a boy who she feels like she knowsbut thats impossible. Determined to get back to school and back to A Midsummer Nights Dream, in which shes starring, she lies to her sister, her mom, and her doctorsshes fine, she says. Shes fine, shes fine, shes fine. But then on her first day back, she takes a seat in class next to the mysterious boy. Queasy with anxiety (I cant see you, she hisses at him, because youre not really here), Jaye realizes this boy is, in fact, real. And he has no idea what shes talking about. Caught between this fascinating, empathetic new kid and her childhood friend turned recent love interest, Jaye begins to notice unnerving similarities between her circumstances and those of some of Shakespeares most famous plays. Tingling banter and clandestine meet-ups give way to darker, muddier incidents. As things escalate to a frightening pitch, how much of whats happening is real, how much is in Jayes head, and how much does it matter as shes hurtling toward a fateful end over which she seems to have no control?