Dreams of Irkalla: The Awakening

When nightmares start keeping score, only a dream-walker can decide who wakes up alive.

Snow-locked Vireth is losing citizens to a “sleeping sickness”: every morning another body is found, eyes frozen open in terror.
Twenty-three-year-old Saela Vireth—an orphan branded grave-born for her forbidden ability to walk through other people’s dreams—traces the deaths to Il’Zathur, a silver-eyed god imprisoned beneath the town in the ruined underworld city of Irkalla. To end the plague she must descend into that lightless metropolis, master soul-weaving magic, and choose: keep the deity chained or free him and let dream and daylight bleed together forever .

Why We Wrote This Book

Creative Spark Reader Pay-Off Unearthing Mesopotamian myth. Ereshkigal, Irkalla, and the Namtaru bloodline haven’t head-lined modern fantasy—until now You get ancient lore that feels freshly excavated and deliciously sinister. Turning “chosen one” on its head. Saela isn’t destined to save the world; the townsfolk think she’s damning it Outsider readers see their struggle wielded as strength, not pity. Making nightmares a battlefield. If you could fight inside a dream—and win—would you risk it? Every chapter dares you to turn off the lights afterward. Hope sharpened by horror. Terror hurts more when a sliver of redemption still glints in the dark You close the book chilled and strangely empowered.

What This Story Can Do for You

  • Steal your sleep—in the best way. Cliff-edge chapters and relentless stakes generate irresistible “one more page” momentum.

  • Feed your taste for morally gray romance. Il’Zathur is equal parts danger and devotion; shipping him and Saela feels like holding a live wire .

  • Scratch that cosmic-horror itch—without the baggage. Lovecraftian scale meets gothic lyricism in sleek, modern prose.

  • Ignite book-club debates. Themes of consent, agency, and the cost of freedom come with a built-in discussion guide.

  • Leave you haunted—in a good way. Obsidian spires, shadow-hounds, and the grinding silence of a dead city linger long after the final page .

Ready to Walk the Veil?

If you crave a novel that crawls under your skin, seduces your sense of wonder, and hands you a blade forged from nightmares and hope, claim your copy today. Your dreams will never be the same…and that’s exactly the point.

Stay curious, stay fearless, and meet us where the shadows keep score.

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