"GLASSBORN", book one, "when the dream breaks"
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Lia always thought her biggest problem was school stress and forgotten homework.
But one quiet afternoon shatters everything she thought was normal.
Her parents are gone without a word. The house is silent. And then-her room turns into something out of a dream or a nightmare. Books float. Papers spin. Time seems to stutter. But when it all crashes down and she calls her friends for help, the chaos is gone.
Everyone tells her she's tired. Overworked. Imagining things.
But Lia knows what she saw.
As strange events begin to repeat-unseen voices, flickers of movement, dreams that bleed into daylight-Lia begins to question what's real. Is something inside her breaking apart? Or is something outside trying to get in?
In a town where nothing ever happens, Lia is about to find out that everything can change-especially when reality starts to bend.
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