Opposite World

Memories are malleable, dreams are a battlefield, and reality is a shifting landscape. Think Inception meets Dark Matter, with echoes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the unsettling corporate dystopia of Severance. You can’t always trust your dreams. But what if you can’t trust your waking life either? Fifteen years after her mother’s mysterious death, Piper “Pip” Screed discovers The Reverie Cloud, a sleep-therapy program merging dreams with augmented reality. When the system is hijacked, her mind becomes a battlefield, her buried memories the ultimate prize. Trapped in a collapsing virtual dreamscape, Pip must navigate its mercurial layers, confront the specters of her past, and outmaneuver those who seek to weaponize her subconscious—before she’s erased entirely. A mind-bending fusion of cerebral suspense and haunting surrealism, OPPOSITE WORLD explores the vanishing point between perception and reality—and how the aching tremor of human longing may pull us even further from both. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.