An old and never resolved dream comes back to haunt Jonas's mind for a night after years submerged into oblivion in the depths of his subconscious. After returning from work, he receives a call from his best friend, saying that the two were invited to a party at a glamorous hotel outside the city.
Upon arriving at the party, he is faced with a splendid and extravagant place, failing to understand how its owners could keep such structure a secret. Right at the reception, a beautiful woman catches his eye and Jonas sets his mind to get to know her better. However, the place's nuances end up being more quirky than he could have imagined.
The first surprise comes when he is invited to partake in a lucid dreaming session, joined by the host and the woman from the reception, who apparently are a very odd couple. Jonas is supposed to take a synthetically designed drug before joining the experience, which is given to him by Rodrigo, his best friend. The lucid dream experience leaves Jonas astonished by the extraordinary that was presented to him within the mechanism of the Dream Room, but Rodrigo messes up when changing the designed drug for a simple headache pill.
From then on, Jonas starts having psychotic episodes where he alternates between two distinct realities, not knowing which is the right one and which is the dream, he goes on living lost between a maze inside the Dartagnan Brothers' Hotel and a red room where he he is stuck to a bed, being watched by the party's host, a mercenary doctor, a perverted priest, and a woman who seems to have old quarrels to settle with him.
Gradually Jonas realizes what he did in the past to be trapped like that, discovering, after making friends with the host's long stranded brother in the maze, that his life is being hunted by a religious organisation. Jonas is surprised by a tangle of news about a new world that is presented to him, full of lucid dreams and drugs.
She escaped a house full of monsters... but she never stopped being hunted.
I thought I escaped the worst of it.
But some monsters don't stay in the past.
After years of surviving in a house that only knew cruelty, sixteen year old Aven is sent to live with her grandparents in a secluded town hidden deep in the forest, gorgeous, quiet, and filled with people who act like nothing bad ever happens there. The kind of place only the rich can afford to live. The kind of place that almost feels like peace.
Almost.
She wanted a fresh start. A chance to breathe.
What she didn't expect?
Grayson.
He's charming, brooding, and way too interested in her. The kind of boy girls fight over... and they do. But there's something off about him. Something he isn't saying.
And her past comes crashing back, violent, messy, and impossible to outrun. Aven realizes her new life isn't just fragile. It's built on secrets.
Love. Lies. Loyalty. Survival.
Aven's never been safe.
She's just been watched.
And no matter how far she runs, the people she escaped from keep saying the same thing:
"You'll always be mine."
*****
I am almost done with this book and already started editing... if some things don't make sense that's why lol.