Sleepers And Wakers
At exactly 3:17, half the world falls asleep. The other half is left to watch.
On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon in the city of Bellweather, David Carter is fixing a leaking sink while his daughter Maya sketches at the kitchen table - and then, without warning, both of them collapse. Across the globe, millions do the same, in the same instant. When they wake twelve hours later, it's David's wife Elena and their son Josh who go under in their place.
There is no explanation. No warning. No way to stop it. Every human being on Earth now belongs to one of two states - Waker or Sleeper - cycling every twelve hours, forever, with no way to change sides and no way to wake someone who's gone under.
For the Carter family, that means a marriage and a childhood now lived almost entirely in writing - a shared notebook, a few precious minutes at the changeover, and a love that has to survive being told instead of shown. For the world, it means two new religions, a fractured society, and a growing, uneasy question nobody wants to say out loud: what if some people don't want to come back?
Then Maya starts dreaming of somewhere else. A black sky. A silver landscape. A door that shouldn't exist. As scientists trace an impossible signal to a source far beyond Earth, the Carters discover they may be the key to understanding not just what's happening to their family - but what's reaching for all of humanity, and why.
Sleepers and Wakers is a story about the distance between the people we love, the messages we leave for each other in the dark, and what it costs to choose someone, over and over, across a gap you can't close.
Book One of the Sleepers and Wakers series.
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