The Dreamless Sea

A Matt Ransom Mystery

By: Bobby Underwood

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The morally complex and emotionally beautiful Sapphire Sea took the Matt Ransom series to new frontiers, reshaping the sensual and complex world while fulfilling all the promise suggested in the series’ lean and sexy inaugural entry, The Velvet Sea. If readers were expecting the follow-up to The Sapphire Sea to be a letdown after the series’ most emotionally powerful entry, they can be forgiven. It was difficult to imagine where this series could go from where we last left our favorite bio-organic and his sensually close group of friends, especially after such devastating losses. Yet even at the beautiful ending, Arthur Ballard was left hanging like a dangling participle in the Sapphire Sea’s epilog, and from this tiny strand comes perhaps the most beautiful book of the entire series. Sprawling, complex, emotionally naked and ultimately powerful, The Dreamless Sea doesn’t just equal the Sapphire Sea, it builds on it, further reshaping this series by taking it in new and fresh directions. Like the Sapphire Sea, this entry is both heartbreaking and beautiful, proof that indeed, sometimes lightning can and does strike twice.