Dream Wars, Tome 1 : Rising

Résumé

My name is Kit Steele, and I was 10 years old when thousands of alien ships landed all over the world in the year 2020. We thought for sure that we’d be goners, about to be obliterated or terraformed out of existence. But when the ship doors opened, they were…empty. Maybe they were just communication vessels, we thought.

But that night, when humanity fell asleep, we were sucked into an alternate dimension. The Dream Wars. A place where the alien ghouls fed off of your body unless you fought back. If you’re killed in the Dream War, your body dies on Earth. That was 10 years ago, and I’ve been training for the Dream War every night since then. Each time I close my eyes and drift off to sleep, I become a merciless killer taking out as many ghouls as I can. It’s earned me the rightful title of Commander, and now I protect the rich in their sleep with my team of warriors. But the one thing I didn’t expect was that my new client Damien Striker might be able to put a stop to this war if I can keep him alive long enough.

Meet the team:

Commander Kit Steele – Carnivore, protector of billionaires, has a penchant for blue hair and anything sweet, hates cats, despises the color pink, and loves 80’s rock music

Medic Ronnie Sotto – Kit’s best friend, graduated Harvard medical school at age 15, loves cats, favorite color pink, and once did leg surgery on a cat in the dream war to save its life

Lieutenant Brisk Hutchins – Slept with Kit one time, is in love with Ronnie even though she turns him down because he slept with Kit, pretends to like cats, has one of the highest ghoul kill records second to Kit, secretly loves old Britney Spears songs

Pyrotechnic expert Nox Lightfoot – Nickname “pretty boy”, likes to light things on fire, thinks cats are okay, and would jump in front of a bus if it would bring bacon back