Fred Lancer talks people down for a living.A veteran hostage negotiator with a calm voice and a crippling fear of bridges, Fred's latest case goes sideways when a sniper's bullet puts him in a coma. But death doesn't come.Instead, Fred wakes up in the In-Between-a dreamlike coma world filled with survivors, nightmares, and a deadly rule: the only way out is to face your greatest fear.In this realm, everyone has a power shaped by their subconscious. Fred's? He throws up ammunition for any weapon he can imagine-a gift not seen in decades. A gift the King of the Coma World already controls.Hunted by dream-borne monsters and haunted by his past, Fred must join a resistance of broken minds and lost souls. Together, they'll fight for freedom, memory, and the right to wake up again.But the King isn't just a monster of nightmares.He's awake now. And he's killing the helpless-in both worlds.With a hammer-wielding gorilla from a childhood video game at his side and a woman he can only reach in dreams, Fred becomes the last hope to stop a war between good guys, bad guys......and even worse.