The Dreamwalker's Daughter : A Family Psychological Thriller of Hidden Gifts and Deadly Choices. The Unreliable Mirror Series, #5

A gifted child can enter dreams, rewrite memories, and uncover secrets hidden inside the human mind. Now governments, spies, and a woman from her own bloodline are coming for her. For eighteen months, the Ashby family has lived something they almost no longer recognize: peace. The farmhouse in Maine is quiet. The nightmares are gone. The children are healing. Nora Ashby, a former forensic psychologist who spent years fighting manipulation, gaslighting, and family secrets, finally believes the worst may be behind them.
Then the government calls. Nine-year-old Chloe Ashby is not an ordinary child. She is a dreamwalker-a girl capable of entering dreams, sensing emotions, and touching memories that were never meant to be shared. What began as a frightening family secret has become something far larger. A Department of Defense program claims it has tracked unusual cognitive abilities for decades. Their scientists insist Chloe is one of the most significant discoveries they have ever seen.
They offer training. Protection. Resources. Nora sees something else. A child being transformed into a resource. A weapon. A target. When federal agents arrive with legal authority to take Chloe into custody, Nora faces an impossible decision: run and spend the rest of their lives hiding, or cooperate and hope the people studying her daughter can still see her as human. Chloe chooses for herself. She wants answers.
She wants control over the gift that has shaped her life. And she wants to believe that knowledge can be used to help people instead of hurting them. But the deeper she goes into the government's hidden world, the more disturbing the truth becomes. Other gifted children already exist. Psychic abilities are being tested, measured, and categorized. People are being monitored. Some are being trained.
Some are being contained. And somewhere inside a secured facility, Chloe discovers a prisoner whose silent suffering exposes a reality far darker than anyone imagined. When Chloe enters the prisoner's mind, she uncovers evidence of a hidden bomb and prevents a catastrophe that should have killed hundreds. Overnight, she becomes more valuable than ever. And more dangerous. Because the bomb was only the beginning.
A second organization emerges from the shadows. Older. More secretive. Far more ruthless. The Corinthian Group has spent generations identifying people like Chloe. Its director claims he wants to protect her. He claims enemies around the world have already detected the unique signature of her gift. He claims there is nowhere left to hide. The choice he offers is simple. Join them. Or become prey. As Chloe's abilities evolve beyond dreamwalking into something far more unsettling, she discovers she can influence memories themselves.
A single decision can calm fear, erase intentions, or alter what another person believes to be true. The line between helping and controlling becomes increasingly difficult to see.