"Meridian" is the second dark fantasy novel in the "Book of Dreams" series.
A serial killer is on the loose and Nicodemus Smith realizes that he is killing along a lay line that divides San Francisco in two. Nic wants to help the police when they come to her for guidance but she has her own difficulties. Someone abducted an entire yoga class during their meditation and left a dozen bodies in a coma. Whatever took them Dreamside was powerful enough to subdue thirteen disciplined minds and actually kill the class instructor. The victims’ physical conditions are deteriorating rapidly in spite of their being on life support putting her on a short clock, but Nic’s chance Dreamside encounter with the Meridian Killer changes her plans. Welcome back to the Narcoscape, the shadowy realm of dreams where dark things prey on the mind. They all go there; the saints, the sinners, and the serial killers too. Can Nicodemus Smith, a Dreamside detective, find a Wakeside killer before he hunts her down?