A girl once dreamed a kingdom into existence—and paid for it with her identity. Years after being institutionalized and stripped of her imagination, Claire Balstam discovers the truth: the worlds she and others created are real, and Drifthaven was never meant to cure them, but to harvest their power. As control tightens and her mind fractures under engineered nightmares, Claire must choose—submit to the story written for her, or reclaim her name, her voice, and the Dreamworld she was born to create…even if it costs her everything. 

A prince was born into a kingdom of sugar and steel—and raised to hold it together. As it begins to fracture, Elias senses a threat no sword can meet—shifting borders, vanishing structures, and a darkness that does not follow the rules of his world. At the center of it all is Marie—a girl who does not belong, yet feels inextricably tied to everything he is trying to protect. As the truth behind the Dreamworlds begins to surface, Elias must confront what he cannot understand: that his world may not exist without her—and that saving it may mean losing the one person who makes it real.

When a brilliant young clockmaker breaks time to save his dying brother, he unleashes a shadow that begins to consume imagination itself—and binds his own life to mending what he has undone. As he moves through worlds born of belief—guiding, failing, and learning the cost of interference—he discovers that true restoration cannot be forced, only chosen. But when the first Dreamer is captured and her memory erased, threatening to unravel every world she created, he must risk everything to reach her—trusting that even broken time can still be set right… if someone remembers how to believe.