Twisted Games

He promised her sleep. He never promised she'd wake up alone.

Elara Vance hasn't slept in fourteen months. Desperate and deteriorating, she walks into the Croft Sleep Institute — an exclusive, invitation-only clinic run by the brilliant and enigmatic Dr. Julian Croft. He offers her the one thing no other doctor could: rest. Real, deep, uninterrupted rest. All she has to do is swallow the pill.

But Julian's proprietary compound does more than open the gate to sleep. It opens a gate to her. Night after night, Elara's body rises from bed and walks — eyes open, mind dark — straight to the man who holds the prescription. She remembers nothing. He remembers everything.

As the bruises multiply and the dreams grow unbearably vivid, Elara begins to suspect that the line between treatment and obsession dissolved the moment she entered his clinic. But the sleep is the only thing keeping her alive. And Julian Croft is the only man on earth who can provide it.

The cure is the cage. The doctor is the monster. And the most dangerous part isn't what he does to her in the dark — it's how much she wants him to.