The Dream Walker’s First Night

At fifty-two, sleep scientist Dr. Eliza Vale believes every dream has a rational explanation—until her own dreams begin revealing a town’s buried past.

After a quiet divorce and a career setback she refuses to call a breakdown, Eliza arrives in Larkspur Cove to study a strange cluster of sleep disturbances. The seaside town should be a simple research assignment, but each night pulls her deeper into vivid scenes from decades ago, complete with names, rooms, warnings, and one woman’s desperate final message.

Rowan Ashby, the town’s guarded historic preservationist, has spent years protecting Larkspur’s old houses and older secrets. He does not believe in coincidences, and he definitely does not trust outsiders with notebooks—until Eliza describes a room sealed before she was born. As their investigation grows more intimate, so does the question neither of them can ignore: what if the past is not haunting Eliza, but choosing her?

Atmospheric, romantic, and deeply rooted in midlife reinvention, The Dream Walker’s First Night is a paranormal women’s fiction novel about second chances, found courage, and the kind of love that arrives after you finally stop apologizing for becoming yourself.