The Dream Gate: A Cosmic Awakening Novel, Book One

Every night at exactly 03:17, fifteen-year-old Mike Wang wakes from the same dream: a map of stars he has never studied, a white dove that will not look away, and a voice with a warning he cannot shake. Someone is teaching people to stop choosing for themselves. He tells no one. Who would believe it? Then the dream starts coming true in daylight.His best friend quits the guitar he loved. The class artist stops drawing. Kids go quiet, agreeable, easy, emptied of the small wants that made them who they are. And one night Mike's little sister rises from her bed and walks down the hall singing a rhyme nobody ever taught her. The dream was not a dream at all. It was the first crack in a system that reaches every mind on Earth while it sleeps, and the crack is widening.To fight back, Mike has to go in. With Lily, an artist whose drawings can catch the signal others cannot see; Ken, a data prodigy who reads the network like sheet music; and Steve, a retired soldier who coaches them through fear, Mike enters the dream network to pull people back before they forget how to want anything at all. The real test is not the enemy, but himself. Mike has spent his whole life waiting to be the chosen one. The only way to save the people he loves is to let that fantasy go: to be an ordinary boy who protects others while afraid, who keeps choosing even when choosing costs him.Cosmic Awakening begins here, a series for readers who suspect that courage is something you practice, not something you are born with, and that the one thing a perfect system can never calculate is who you decide to love. Read more