She Who Walks in Sleep: Book One in The Bender Saga

Some Dreams don’t end when you wake up.
After their sister Mara’s death…
Eli wakes night after night, drenched in sweat, haunted by dreams too vivid, too violent to ignore. Dreams where something ancient crawls through the cracks in reality. Something watching, waiting. Something called the Bender.
When his younger brother Noah begins sketching the same entity Eli sees in his sleep, grotesque, shifting, wrong, Eli knows the nightmares are not just in his head. Noah does not speak of what he draws. He does not have to. The Bender is no longer confined to dreams.
She is walking now.
And she is coming for them.
Their Aunt Colleen, the last of a family line bound to a secret ritual, holds the key to understanding the creature’s return, and the price required to stop her. But as reality fractures and time begins to unravel, Eli must face a terrifying truth:
Not every nightmare ends in sleep.