Dream in the Ash

Name: Dream in the Ash
Author: Jacquelyn Gilmore

Genre: Romance Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Dark

123 pages

THE DREAM HOTEL meets THE ATLAS SIX in this dark, psychologically charged dystopian thriller, featuring speculative elements and a dangerous slow-burn romantic thread.

Only when you’re facing the ashes of despair can you truly dream. For Audrey, the ashes are about to give birth to an inferno.

Ten years ago, telepath Audrey Sarafian was convicted of murdering her family after insisting the real killer was a voice inside her head. Without proof, no one believed her. She was declared unstable, sent to prison, and remade into a public monster.
When her conviction is suddenly overturned, Audrey walks free into a society that still sees her as a brutal murderer. And the moment she leaves prison, the voice returns—very much alive. Determined to prove what really happened, Audrey descends into the city’s decaying underworld, where ex-convicts are exploited, and powerful people erase inconvenient truths without consequence.

But the deeper she goes, the more she realizes her family’s murder was never an isolated crime. It was the beginning of something much larger.
And as the hunt closes in, the voice in her head grows more insistent—not pushing Audrey toward madness, but toward becoming something far more dangerous.
Because it doesn’t want her dead.

It wants her transformed.

Dream in the Ash is a dark, psychological speculative thriller with dystopian, sci-fi, and fantasy elements and a restrained, slow-burning romantic thread. It’s set in a near-future Earth society and is for readers who enjoy being dropped into uncertainty, piecing things together, and following a flawed heroine through psychological chaos, betrayal, and dangerous power. It is book one in a five-part series. Please see the author’s website for a list of content warnings

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