Product Description

High school teacher Danny Wakeman has spent sixteen years believing that his childhood friend, Marcus Gaines, saved his life after an accident. But Danny's perspective on the world gets turned inside-out when he and the woman he wants to marry, Sara McBride, drink from the mystical waters of Dreaming Creek, trade bodies, and get stuck that way... Trapped in each others' bodies, struggling to fit in to each others' lives, Danny and Sara will have to pull together to overcome a perplexing lawsuit, a plot to defraud Danny out of his recently deceased parent's farm, and an attempted rape—all of which ultimately prove to bear Marcus's sinister fingerprints. And before it's over, Danny will discover that this pattern of treachery and violence goes all the way back to his supposed accident, which Marcus designed to cover up an even blacker secret...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1898535 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 372 pages

About the Author
Edmund R. Schubert is the award-winning author of over thirty short stories, having been published in magazines and anthologies in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. In addition to writing, Schubert has held a range of editorial positions, including serving as fiction editor of the online magazine, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. An anthology of IGMS stories, co-edited by Schubert and Card, was published by Tor (August, 2008). Dreaming Creek (LBF Books, October 2008) is his first novel.

Customer Reviews

One hell of a read
"Danny Wakeman always believed his friend, Marcus Gaines, saved his life. But Danny's perspective on the world gets turned inside-out when he and his lover, Sara McBride, drink from the mystical waters of Dreaming Creek, and trade bodies..."

This book starts off slowly, as we get to know Danny, Sara, and Marcus. But once Danny and Sara make their fateful switch, all hell breaks loose.

Imagine "Freaky Friday" but with all the discovery implied by switching genders. Cross that with mystery, intrigue, and good old fashioned terror, and you've got Schubert's "Dreaming Creek."

One hell of a read. Highly recommended.

I want more
A well written, easy read that I didn't want to put down. As some of the other reviews state, I would have it on my mind until I got back to it.

Bought It. Read It. Loved it.
Dreaming Creek is not the genre of book I usually read, which made the fact that I couldn't put it down all the more thrilling. There's just the right mix of mystery/thriller/romance to intrigue a mix of readers. The main characters of Danny and Sara are likeable and--more importantly for a book that asks us to believe the main characters switch bodies--believable. I prefer character driven stories and while Dreaming Creek has several strong plots, for me the author succeeded most in creating for me, the reader, an attachment to his characters. I cared what happened to them and found myself holding my breath at several key scenes, scrambling through pages to find out what happens next.

I know I have a winning book if, when I set the book down to deal with... life... I can't stop thinking about it and am willing to place life on hold so I can re-enter the world created for me. I put life on hold to read Dreaming Creek. I recommend you do the same.