Better Than This : Lucid Dreamer Publications : 9781739246419 : 1739246411 : 10 Dec 2022 : Do something amazing - the last instruction Taamarai's brother gave her in the last letter he ever sent. So here she was, alone in a nowhere town in North Carolina with a crazy dream and a truck full of boxes. Surely there had to be more to amazing than a broken elevator, a sixth-floor apartment, and a bored girl called Ali wanting to help? Ali's father Carl had never met anyone like Taamarai before. In fact, he was certain she'd be gone in a flash, back to wherever people like her came from. Places where people made plans, and read books, and didn't know how lucky they were. Normally that would be fine. Carl was used to things disappearing. Except... Ali seemed smitten, and the only thing Carl had ever really given a damn about was keeping her safe. Safe was hard enough. Wanting more was just asking to get hurt. What if getting hurt is the risk you have to take for a chance at better