The Liar's Crown

Wren Calloway destroys dream frauds for a living. Then a client pays her to break the Sleep Cartel — a syndicate that puts strangers under, sells their best hours, and takes the memories as commission. Wren buys in as a client. She wakes up missing her fourth-grade teacher's name, and Asher Slate's number written on her wrist. Asher is the cartel's best dream-salesman. He can make anyone feel loved for one night. He has been quietly cracking his own syndicate from the inside for two years. They agree to work both sides of the ledger. Every shared dream is another truth traded, another rule broken. Every night they go under together, it gets harder to come back separately. Then the cartel founder traps Asher inside his own sleep, and Wren has to go in after him — and pay with something she can't get back. A contemporary fantasy sleep play thriller about the price of knowing someone.