The Z-Symptom
Book One of The Z-Symptom Trilogy (Immersive Full-Cast Edition)

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Humanity stopped dreaming. Then the dreamers stopped waking.

For eighteen years, no one has remembered a dream. The Quieting made sleep efficient, ended the age of nightmares, and promised a safer, more predictable world. Then seventeen-year-old Mara Vey is brought to a Boston hospital and cannot be awakened. Within hours, the same condition appears across continents.

Eighty thousand sleepers. One city beneath constant rain. One tower rising over every map.

Former homicide investigator Elias Vale has built a career on evidence that behaves. Dream Z does not. When an experimental interface sends him into the sleepers' shared reality, strangers know his name, a civilization remembers centuries of human visitors, and Elias finds the wife who disappeared eleven years ago—still alive, and no longer the woman he lost.

Somnia is no hallucination, and its people can die. As failures begin to echo through the systems Earth depends on, Elias must decide whether proof of another world is enough to make humanity responsible for it. Saving the sleepers may condemn the people whose only home is on the other side.

The Immersive Edition: a full cast of distinct character voices, an original score from The Z-Symptom soundtrack, and scene-by-scene sound design. Nearly 16 hours, unabridged. Book One of The Z-Symptom Trilogy.