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Struggling artist and mother Kate Tindle devours a seemingly innocent dessert, a slice of 'Dream Cake', at a school bazaar which brings her a sudden freedom from her everyday life. At night, she crawls exhausted into her bed in Oxford, England, only to wake up, rejuvenated and unburdened of her pregnancy, in a dreamscape of the American Southwest. Here she is attracted to a half-Navajo man who believes he's dreaming her.

When Kate's brother Adam has a car accident that places him in a coma, she discovers that Jonathan Nez, the man of her dreams, was a passenger in her brother's car, and is lying in a coma too. Her night-times then become a quest in which she and Jon must somehow find Adam and rescue both men before their dreaming states become permanent.

Kate is due to give birth to her third child at any moment. Adam's coma is throwing family life into turmoil. There are only eight slices of cake, and she must eat a piece each day to return to the dreamworld at night. What her mysterious cake benefactor wants in return, she has no idea, but she expects that, with this gift, there'll eventually come a price.