Dreaming Wakes the Fool, Book 1

Dreaming Wakes the Fool is a mind-bending journey of magic and murder leading to personal transformation.
When cash-strapped college student Echo meets Jeph Blackthorne, he offers her a job that seems to solve all her problems. Leaping for the opportunity, she doesn't know that her weird best friend, Gray was on the verge of telling her about the world Jeph introduces her to--a world of meaning expressed in the symbols of dreams.
Echo takes the job and crosses into the world Gray has known all his life. She uses clues in the minds and memories of other people to locate a man Jeph wants to find. In the process, she becomes adept at navigating the beautiful and terrifying world she now inhabits.
But when she learns the true purpose of her mission, she must try to undo the harm she's done and stop a soul-thief who threatens everyone she loves.
When you walk in the world of dreams, everything is what it means, and nothing is what it appears.