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When a reluctant dream-walker touches the mind of a sleeping god, every nightmare fights to wake.

Vireth is a mountain town that lives by iron and prayer—and now by fear. Each dawn brings another corpse: lips rimed with frost, lungs emptied by silent screams. The clerics call it a plague of “sleeping sickness,” but twenty-three-year-old Saela knows better. She is Namtaru, blood-marked to walk the threshold of dreams, and the deaths pulse in time with a presence she can feel under her skin.

Answering a summons only she can hear, Saela descends through the veils of sleep and stands before Irkalla, a vast obsidian necropolis where time itself lies embalmed. There she meets Il’Zathur—silver-eyed, impossibly beautiful, and bound by Ereshkigal’s own shadow-forged chains. He offers Saela power enough to calm the nightmare tide if she will unlock the seals that hold him. His kiss is frost and starlight; his promises sound like destiny.

Guided by a moon-bladed athame and an heirloom amulet that burns with the Queen’s last warning, Saela must navigate a labyrinth of immortal politics, carnivorous shadow-hounds, and the whispered memories of gods who remember the world before death was born. Every choice tears at her loyalty to the living above and her awakening bond to the darkness below.

If she succeeds, Vireth may breathe again. If she fails—or if she chooses Il’Zathur—dream and daylight will bleed together, and humanity will drown in the eternal music of a god’s desire.

Dreams of Irkalla: The Awakening is a sweeping dark-fantasy horror that weaves Sumerian myth with hypnotic gothic prose, perfect for readers who crave morally ambiguous heroines, ancient romances, and worlds where even hope casts a shadow.