Sleep is no longer safe.

When government analyst Thomas Smith dies in a locked apartment wearing an inexplicable smile, sleep researcher Mara Kade discovers a disturbing anomaly in his final REM cycle.

Someone was inside his dream.

Her investigation exposes Somnus, a covert intelligence program capable of entering sleeping minds, extracting memories, manipulating emotions, and killing targets without leaving physical evidence. Its operators, known as Oneironauts, have transformed human consciousness into the perfect interrogation chamber.

Then Mara discovers that Somnus has been entering her own dreams for more than a year.

Watched, mapped, and marked for termination, she begins constructing lucid-dream defenses from weaponized memories, symbolic traps, and false realities. But every successful defense draws her deeper into the hidden architecture of the program and closer to its creator, the man known only as the Architect.

To survive, Mara must learn to invade the invaders.

But as the boundary between her mind and the minds of others begins to collapse, she faces a terrifying question:

Can she destroy Somnus without becoming its most dangerous operator?

SOMNUS is a dark psychological science-fiction thriller about dream warfare, cognitive surveillance, memory manipulation, and the final collapse of mental privacy.