LIFE IS BUT A DREAM Book One of The Dream Sequence Novellas Book DescriptionSome connections don't begin with introductions.They begin with interruption.Evan Mercer is a high school counselor in Portland, quietly grieving a loss he's never learned how to name. His life is orderly, restrained, and deliberately small - until he begins experiencing moments that don't belong to him.A kitchen he's never entered.A city he's never visited.A woman he has never met - yet somehow knows.Across the world in Cape Town, paralegal Mara O'Connell is experiencing the same disturbances. Not symbolic dreams. Not imagination. But precise, shared moments that refuse to fade when she wakes.Neither of them believes in fate.Both of them try to ignore what's happening.They fail.As Evan and Mara cautiously reach across continents - through notebooks, messages, and guarded conversations - they begin to uncover the outline of something buried deep within forgotten systems and sealed records. Their connection isn't supernatural. It's procedural. Designed. And still being watched.What started as a private anomaly becomes a threat - not because of what they see in their dreams, but because of what those dreams reveal.Life Is But a Dream is a slow-burn psychological suspense novella about memory, grief, and the dangerous cost of being witnessed. It blends grounded realism with speculative tension, asking a single question: What if someone was watching your life - and had been for a very long time?Ideal For Readers Who Enjoy- Psychological suspense with literary depth- Thoughtful, character-driven mysteries- Stories where systems, not monsters, are the threat- Authors like Blake Crouch, Dennis Lehane, and early Gillian Flynn- Slow tension that rewards close attention