Sweet Dreams

A rejected dream guardian battling addiction enters the Realm of Nightmares to save her only friend—and confront her desperate need to belong

Pixy has spent her life trying to belong in the Realm of Dreams. One of the most powerful dream-projectors of her generation, she guards the portals that keep nightmares from crossing into the human world. Yet in a society where purity is measured by white hair, her black ink marks her as cursed — a hybrid. Abandoned, battling addiction and chronic pain, and trapped in a toxic love, she is certain she won’t live long. When her only friend, Axia, is taken beyond the portals dividing Humans, Dreams, and Nightmares, Pixy follows.

In the Realm of Nightmares, the king is dead and his three sons — Terrence, Nocte, and Soma — compete for the throne. The prince whose champion survives the deadly trials will inherit the crown. Pixy is forced to fight for Terrence, while Axia becomes Nocte’s. As the trials unfold, alliances shift and Pixy’s friendship with Axia fractures under envy, loyalty, and ambition.

When brutal human murders destabilize the fortress, Pixy and Nocte are drawn into an investigation that threatens the fragile balance between realms. In her, Nocte recognizes his own exile and the longing he has buried for centuries — not for power, but for balance and light in a kingdom condemned to eternal darkness. The strategy is clear: Axia must win so Nocte, the only prince who truly cares for humans, can claim the crown. What no one anticipates is that he will fall for Pixy — the one woman whose death would secure his reign.

In the kingdom she was taught to fear, Pixy confronts the truth: dreams and nightmares are not opposites, but mirrors — and only by facing both can she reclaim her power.