The Last Dreamer

A century after the last dreams faded, humanity has mastered the art of silence. Emotions are forbidden. Art is outlawed. Sleep is dreamless, and peace has become a prison. In the gray city of Novalis, seventeen-year-old Aria Sol hides an impossible secret: she dreams. Every night, her mind is filled with colors no one remembers and music no one has ever heard. To the world, she is sick. To herself, she feels like a ghost haunting a reality that has forgotten how to feel. When Elias Kane, a young man tasked with regulating consciousness, is assigned to monitor her, he expects to uncover a threat to society. But what he witnesses instead is something beautiful—a sky raining music, flowers blooming from light, and a rebirth of emotion in his own heart. As Aria's dreams begin to spill into the waking world, spreading color and chaos throughout Novalis, the government declares her an anomaly that must be eliminated. But humanity is beginning to awaken. People are remembering what it means to love, to hope, and to feel. Aria must choose between abandoning her gift—or freeing the world, even if it costs her her life. In a world without dreams, one girl dares to remember what it means to be alive.