Claire Dean

Here, 14 authors have been invited to work with key scientists to explore, through short fiction, various aspects of sleep research: from the possibilities of ‘sleep engineering’ and ‘overnight therapies’, to future-tech ways of harnessing sleep’s problem-solving powers, to the challenges posed by our increasingly 24-hour lifestyles.

The only thing that really matters in the world is to not be alone in it.Saved from the shelter by "Good Boy," a lonely widower with a terrible secret and a silent, sterile life, Toby, a Great Dane/Labrador/Jerk mix begins a love affair with king-sized beds, food from a can, and every creature on his street except for one cruel man, and a haughty ginger cat. With blazing speed and a knack for quick escapes, Toby upends Good Boy's quiet life and leaps into the laps and hearts of his neighbors, from a heartbroken widow and the ghost who can't leave her to the teenager who is more dog-like than girl. With a dog's ability to perceive what a human can't, Toby befriends the living and the dead, and everyone in between. A hundred plus pounds of muscle, joy, and open rebellion, Toby brings mud, chaos and unconditional love to a world of loneliness and loss.Claire Dean, who also writes as Christy Yorke and Christy Cohen, is the author of 11 published novels, including Girlwood, Spirit Caller, and The Wishing Garden. She lives in Boise, Idaho with her husband, Robert, and Jenny, a Great Dane/Labrador/Jerk mix. The pseudonym Claire Dean is taken from the names of the author's two children, and only used when she writes the books of her heart. Good Boy is one of those rare novels. While most of the author's books have a dog running around in them somewhere, Jenny wants to make it clear that she is the first star.

No one ever said a guardian angel had to be human . . . Seven years ago, Jacob Sheely was attacked by a grizzly bear, but it's only now that he's starting to have nightmares. From dreams of craggy mountaintops to the stench of raw meat in his room, it's as if the bear has clawed his way inside him, haunting him even when he's wide awake. Now, Jacob is not only trying to fit in at a new school in the Idaho mountains, he's linked to the terrifying grizzly stalking the town. Fueled by a strength and fearlessness he's never known before, he must trust the spirit of the bear, along with his own instincts, and begin a journey. Into the woods where everything started. On the hunt to kill, or save, a bear.