"Terror walks when dreams come to life."

Because she needed help, Alex had allowed the scientists at the Leeds Center, where she worked, to experiment on her. The result was a killer created in her dreams accidentally released into the real world. Alex feels at least partly responsible and is determined to hunt down and destroy it. What she doesn't feel she needs, and certainly doesn't want, is help from Dr. Jason Connor, a scientist from the project. She had been very intimate with him. However, Jason feels a responsibility for the escape of the beast also -- and has a raging desire for Alex that he knows she still shares.

The premise of this story is intriguing and I would have liked to see more of it. I don't believe this short format did it justice. It was a bit difficult to understand how the hero and heroine could be so obsessed with sex while a killer was running rampant. There are definitely lots of hot sex scenes. I did like the heroine, even though I couldn't appreciate her taste in men. As for the hero, guess I'm just a bit tired of guys "knowing" what woman wants more than she does. No birth control is mentioned.

Sensuality--NC17. Masturbation; crude language; descriptive sex; oral sex. Monogamous relationship. Sexually explicit scenes: 4.

Reviewed by Flora Bell
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted December 9, 2002

Summary

Desperate to be free from the nightmares that have been plaguing her since childhood, Alex volunteers for an experimental treatment designed to release people from the dreams that haunt them at night. When the killer in her mind is mistakenly set free into reality she'll do anything she can to destroy it, even if it means working with a man she knows she can't trust, a man who played a part in the killer's release.

Short story. Sexual Content: NC-17