In the Shadow of a Dream

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Brinna Fareview has always lived in the quiet spaces between other people's stories-until the night her family gathers to finally learn the truth about their mother. Somewhere between secrets and revelations Brinna slips into a strange half‑world where reality blurs nightmares breathe and every member of her family lies trapped in an enchanted sleep. She alone remains awake... and yet not awake at all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When Brinna discovers she can move through the dreams of those she loves she searches desperately for a way to break the spell. But the dream‑realm twists around her shifting with every fear and memory and she can't reach the waking world no matter how hard she tries.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Then Lucian Uraiahs-god of day and light and brother to the god bound to Auri-steps into her dream.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Lucian has spent centuries avoiding the one mortal who unsettles him most. Brinna Fareview is a complication he never wanted a spark he refuses to acknowledge and a reminder of everything he's tried to bury. But when he is stripped of his powers and imprisoned in the mortal realm sleep becomes his only escape... and Brinna is the only place he can go.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In dreams their connection is undeniable. In waking it is impossible.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As the sleeping spell tightens and the boundary between dream and reality begins to fracture Brinna and Lucian must work together to uncover the truth behind the curse. But the longer they share their dreams the more the fated bond between them awakens-dangerous consuming and impossible to outrun.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>If they fail her family will never wake. If they succeed the truth may cost them both far more than their hearts.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In the Shadow of a Dream</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> continues the sweeping romantasy saga of the Fareview sisters-four women bound by law shaped by magic and destined for love powerful enough to challenge gods.</span></p>