Julia, a redheaded girl who was kidnapped at age seven but escaped, is pitied by the world for her tragic past. She is a misunderstood, lonely outcast among her peers but takes to a boy named Griffin, who becomes her first boyfriend. Griffin helps her to move on with her life and not dwell in the past. Since he always plays tricks on her, Julia believes that the phone call she receives notifying her of boyfriends death in a fatal car accident is just another one of his pranks. Then reality hits and she realizes it was no joke at all. Griffins best friend, Bret, is in love with Julia and is hopeful that after Griffins death Julia with fall for him. But she doesnt feel the same way about him. Julia, sad, lonely, and lost, cant sleep well anymore and her dreams are now filled with grief. Eron DeMarchelle is her sandman, a supernatural being who helps humans sleep and who was sent to her when she was a child. He helps to provide her with better nights during her troubling time. Chimere, Erons mentor, has been stricken with him forever and would do anything to gain his love and admiration. But Erons affections already belong to another. Eron longs for Julia. His 100-year term as a sandman is almost up and his return to a human is quickly coming. Will he break his contract and risk being stuck as a sandman forever by pursuing his love for her, or will he lose his chance of a lifetime and possibly the woman of his dreams in order to guarantee his return to humankind? As the fight for Julias heart, and also Erons, gets increasingly intense the stakes involved grow even higher.