Sleep No More

"Tell me the rules," she says.



I stare at her, not sure why I have to do this here, but I start to recite anyway. "Never reveal that you are an Oracle to anyone except another Oracle."



"Good. Two?"



"Fight your visions with all your strength. Never surrender. Never give up. Don't close your eyes."



"Three?"



"Never, under any circumstances, change the future." Sierra nods and a single tear shines on her cheek.



Then I understand.



I did this. Daddy is dead because I didn't follow the rules. I bury my face in my aunt's shirt and start to sob.



Charlotte Westing is an Oracle. For all the good that does her. These days, instead of using their powers, the Oracles fight them. And Charlotte knows the price of breaking the rules: she sees it every day in her mother's wheelchair and the absence of her father. But when a vision of a classmate's death overcomes her defenses, Charlotte is torn. Follow the rules? Or risk everything--even her sanity--to fight the serial killer who has set up residence in her town.