The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

 Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House. 1990. 232p. ISBN 9781563892257.

When Morpheus was imprisoned in Sandman, Vol. 1, one of the people who suffered greatly was Unity Kincaid. Caught in a dream, Unity rarely woke up, and as decades came and went, she floated through them and barely remembered anything. She did recall having a baby while she slept, however. After Morpheus was freed, Unity tracked her child, who by now had a daughter of her own named Rose, and she invited them both to come to England so she could tell them about her life and learn about theirs.

After the initial shock of learning they are related, Rose is tasked by Unity to track down her missing brother, Jed. She returns to the United States, and tracks her brother to Florida. She secures a room in a house filled with strange individuals. Her brother, meanwhile, is being abused by a foster family, who chains him in the basement of their house so they can collect the money the state gives them every month.

Meanwhile, some of Morpheus' dream creatures have escaped the dream world and found residence in reality. Morpheus sets to find his errant creatures and either bring them back or eliminate them. But he soon discovers that Rose is a vortex, a rare human being who can rip the barriers between the dream world and human reality, and therefore must be eliminated.

As Rose continues her search, she finds herself in the middle of a serial killer convention, which is attended by some of Morpheus's creatures, one of whom has captured Jed and plans on killing him. As dreams and reality collide, can Rose find a way to save her brother while escaping Morpheus' goal of eliminating her as a threat of his real?