Always in This Nightmare

<p> All Ella Novotny wants is a good night's sleep and someone to share her life with. Maybe some calm too. A break from the everyday hustle.</p><p><br></p><p>Yet everything around her seems to elevate her anxiety: dealing with her bitter mother's health problems navigating a boss' who takes advantage of her kindness coming home to an empty house. Not even therapy can stave off the nightmares.</p><p><br></p><p>She never expected to find love in the most terrifying of places.</p><p><br></p><p>One night the improbable happens. Ella is thrust into a romantic affair with her sleep paralysis demon Mara through whom she discovers an intoxicating source of power in a world not meant for her. A world of living nightmares who feast upon the fears of sleeping humans.</p><p><br></p><p>Torn between these two worlds Ella wrestles with her desire for a normal life uncovering a strength she can have all to herself and an impossible relationship with a woman who has haunted her for her entire adult life.</p><p><br></p><p>When danger slips past the nightmares and into our world Ella discovers whether Mara truly loves her or if she's just another monster using Ella for her fear.</p><p> </p>