Nightmare's Embrace

by Jennifer Cloud

Nightmare's Embrace is a fictional novel based on a real medical condition called REM-behavioral disorder. The author has researched several true cases and found that people cand do amazing things while suffering from the ailment such as jump from a second story window and return to bed without any knowledge of the incident. Although based in truth, the work is purely fictional.

This is a story of James Facton, a man with everything going for him except for a disturbing problem. He finds himself sleepwalking and acting out his dreams. They start out innocently enough with images of home and an ex-girlfriend, but with stress from a past mistake and a rigid future, his problem esculates. Eventually he finds himself surrounded by death and starts to wonder if he is responsible.

204 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Jennifer Cloud was born in Asheville, North Carolina. There she met her husband who encouraged her to write after finding a partial manuscript. She now resides in Missouri with her husband and two daughters.

She is the author of many novels in both print and electronic versions. She's also had two dozen short stories published and many novellas.

She also writes as J.L. McCale