Boyd Thomas London is a distant cousin of author Jack London.

In this second novel, Boyd Thomas London keeps the youth-oriented focus on the people represented in the novel - the main character here is Joe Blake, a college football player with a life that is almost too good to be true, and a very promising future. This would seem to be cut short when he is involved in an automobile accident that leaves him comatose. This would seem to be the end of the story, but in fact is not, for it is in the dream world that is generated by Blake's comatose condition that the real story of this novel is played out.
Boyd Thomas London lives in Idaho; a distant relative of the famous American writer Jack London, the ideas of adventure and the geography of the West are always implicit if not explicit in the younger London's writing as it was in the elder's. The idea of dream wandering and dream journeys holding importance for young people is a significant one among many Native America peoples, which has influenced London's writing style here.
In the narrative, we encounter Joe Blake's real family, and the real-time events occurring after the accident (the trip to the hospital, etc.) as well as the dream-happenings that Blake's subconscious/unconscious mind navigates. It is a vivid and eventful imagination, with creatures live and created, colourful and exotic, often surreal, but always leading Blake forward.

There are some lessons here. The first is of the importance of family and community that transcends lesser concerns in life - one can imagine that Joe Blake's awakening is similar to that of the unconscious Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, having learned much on her imaginative, dream-wandering journey to carry back home, too.
Perhaps the best audience for this tale would be young people - mid-to-late teenagers, to be precise. Like his earlier novel, the language here is easy to read and understand, without too many technical terms. The plot development is for the most part linear, with some bouncing back and forth between hospital/real-world and dream-sequence. Despite the dream-land aspect, it is without too many psychological twists or subtle aspects to confuse the reader. While this might limit its appeal to those looking for a higher mark of literature akin to the elder author Jack London, it does get the younger London's message through rather more clearly about the important things in life.