Some dreams are never meant to stay asleep. Ever since childhood, sleeping has been terrifying-not because rest isn't needed, but because dreams don't play fair. They show strange places, unknown faces, and events that sometimes spill into reality. No one believes the truth. They call it nightmares or paranoia. But what if it's more than imagination? From those who watch silently, to those who protect and those who dare to fight, every dream is a warning-and every choice can change someone's fate. In a world where dreams can save lives-or end them-who can you trust, when destiny itself seems to be watching? *** Open Novella Contest (2026) Prompts: 18. At eighteen, you begin dreaming of a stranger who feels like your other half. When they finally appear in real life, everything you thought you knew about love and reality begins to shift. 21. You wake from a dream about perfect faceless soulmate, only to meet someone in real life who feels exactly like them and somehow knows things you've never told anyone. Book Cover Created by: @Pretty_flower00

Anna is the kind of girl people look straight through. At school, on the bus, at home - she exists quietly in the background, where asking for anything comes with a price she learned long ago to stop paying. Even with her best friend, Alice, she never fully steps into the world. She just survives it, carefully and without being noticed. Her life was supposed to stay bland, colourless, manageable. Nothing was supposed to change that. Then she runs into Sophie. And something shifts - not all at once, and not enough to understand, but just enough that it doesn't stop. Anna finds herself pulled toward something she can't name, something her body recognises before her mind can catch up. And the worst part is, she doesn't want it to stop.

No one ever dreams, until one day someone does. Filippa's world is turned upside down when she dreams for the first time ever. She doesn't know what her cryptic dream means but something tells her it's important. Then her cat leaves like usual, and she realises that her dream might not be a dream at all but a vision. When she meets Emory, a vampire with a lot of keys, and Merrick a necromancer who can hear the stars whispering, she realises that this vision was aligned perfectly for her, and she has one job only, to find the key that opens all the doors. But when the stars start disappearing, and Fillippa meets Alodia, just how far will she go to find the key, and who will be left behind when the world ends?