SterlingWinters
To love her is a dream. To sleep with her is a nightmare.
Twenty-four-year-old Chip is hopelessly, helplessly in love. Taylor is everything he ever wanted: a sweet, gentle botanist who works at the city conservatory, smells of jasmine, and treats the world with heartbreaking kindness. She is perfect.
Except for what she does in the dark.
Every time Chip closes his eyes, the sweet girl from the flower shop vanishes. In his dreams, Taylor enters his room as a predatory, velvet-dressed vampiress, pinning him to his mattress and draining his life force. At first, it feels like euphoria. But as the nights bleed together, the dreams decay into hyper-realistic horrors, and Chip wakes up with the taste of copper in his mouth and zero memory of his nights.
Now, Chip is on Day 5 of total sleep deprivation. The boundaries between reality and delirium are fracturing. When a string of local residents are found dead in their beds-completely drained of blood-Chip is forced into a terrifying realization: Taylor's nightly visits aren't just nightmares. They are real.
To survive, Chip must do the impossible: stay awake. Because Taylor is planning their next date, and if he falls asleep in her arms one more time, he might never wake up.