Donna Glee Williams: 2 books

"The Braided Path is set in a world which is not this one (but is like this one in some ways), in a culture which is not modernity, and in a world where the laws of nature are basically the same as in our waking world, i.e., there are no vampires, zombies, werewolves, princes, swords, dragons,...

Driven by duty towards a dreamless death… By the time she's sixteen, the town's Dreamer has long ago given up her own life.  She only dreams for others now, every morning delivering up to them the divine guidance that comes to her in the night. In exchange, they treat the Dreamer like...