Cj Zahner

Project Dream Cj Zahner

Project Dream laces a trace of the paranormal into the lives of teenagers taken from their families in this prequel to CJ Zahner's Gripping thriller, Dream Wide Awake. What happened to the kids in the desert? In 2002, the CIA forced several teenagers out of detention centers and into a National Security Test Program called Project Dream. Teens selected had two characteristics: physical superiority and a sixth sense. When the awkward, unpopular, and destitute Izzy Jimenez is caught stealing clothes, authorities enroll her in the program for two reasons: Izzy swims like a fish-and she sees angels. There, she studies and works hard to perfect her clairvoyance hoping authorities will allow her to go home. But when she and the other students master remote viewing and produce results that stun White House officials, additional children-good kids from normal American families-are recruited. Izzy's hope of going home dwindles. Not until the striking, charismatic Rachel Callahan arrives and befriends Izzy does her life become bearable. Project Dream is a coming-of-age story of teenagers thrown into the most unusual circumstances. Each struggle to survive their time in the desert with the goal of getting out and going home, but-can any of them really go home?