Dream in the Water

By Italia Smith

Draya knows how to survive.

By day, she's focused on school and trying to build a future bigger than the one she came from. By night, she becomes Delux at Tippin, a strip club in DC where money moves fast, secrets move faster, and one wrong look can change everything.

What starts as a way to pay tuition and stay afloat turns into something far more dangerous when Draya catches the attention of Heavy-a quiet, powerful man with money, control, and far too many ties to the club she dances in. Their chemistry is instant, messy, and impossible to ignore. But while Draya is trying to figure out where she stands with him, she's also being pulled back toward the one thing she's never been able to let go of:

her sister Dream.

Dream disappeared years ago, but the deeper Draya digs, the more she realizes her sister's story never really ended. Old rumors. Dirty money. A river that keeps more than reflections. And men who know far more than they're saying.

Now somebody wants Draya to stop asking questions.

Too bad she doesn't know how.

Dream in the Water is a gritty, sexy urban fiction drama full of obsession, betrayal, power, and the kind of family love that refuses to die-even when the truth should've stayed buried.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1N145RK
• ISBN13: 9798196043383
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"