After leaving her hometown behind, Elle starts fresh in Washington, DC, working at a small independent bookstore and building a quiet new life shaped by her love of art history. When her best friend moves into the same apartment building, it feels like the fresh start she desperately needed.
Then the nightmares begin.
Each night, the same dream returns. longer, darker, and more violent than before. Elle wakes shaken and sometimes injured, as though the nightmare is clawing its way into reality. Even her cat senses something is wrong, growing fearful whenever Elle is near. Soon, fragments of the dream bleed into her waking life, twisting ordinary moments into something disturbing and impossible to ignore.
As Elle's grip on reality begins to slip, the bookstore's enigmatic owner offers her a mysterious black book, hoping it can help her end the nightmare once and for all. But some secrets are meant to stay buried. When Elle becomes trapped inside the dream itself, she must fight for control of her mind, her identity, and her life. or risk never waking again.