About They Meet in Dreams
FREE 04-05.02.2026
It’s 1999, and Max Reid’s summer gets pretty weird when a boy in his dreams starts feeling way too real.
Seventeen-year-old Max seems to have it all—friends, looks, the kind of easy smile that fools everyone. But inside, he feels the days stretch long and empty, and all the laughter sounds hollow. He’s been running on autopilot for years, drifting through hours, avoiding his mother’s meltdowns, and feeling almost nothing.
Everything changes when he falls asleep under a starry sky and dreams of a boy named Andy.
Andy is nothing like the people in Max’s real life. Honest, curious, unguarded, and kind of weird. He’s the kind of person Max didn’t realize he’d been starving for. And the crazy part? Andy insists he’s real. Not just a dream—but a real person, sharing this dreamworld with Max.
They meet only in dreams, yeteach one feels more real than anything Max wakes up to. Night after night, they explore places that shouldn’t exist, and with every dream, Max sinks deeper into feelings he never expected and can’t quite admit.
But the dreams are changing. Andy is hiding something. Whenever Max asks him to meet in real life, he refuses. He won’t explain why, leaving Max questioning everything, including his own sanity.
Max is determined to prove Andy exists. Because if the dreams end… what is he supposed to do with feelings for someone who might not be real at all?
They Meet in Dreams is a story about identity, emotions, and depression. It explores what it means to love someone you may never truly have. This is not a genre romance with a happy ending.
Content Warning: This book contains themes of trauma, difficult family dynamics, and mental health struggles.
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Author Bio:
H.B. Wasiak is a writer from Poland whose brain has been permanently shaped by an unhealthy amount of movies, video games, chaotic thoughts, and the occasional existential dread, all of which somehow merge together and turn into story ideas. By day, she pretends to be productive in Excel while secretly plotting her next project, and by night, she writes about longing, sharp conflicts, and flawed, morally gray characters whose angst is real, whose words cut deep, and who occasionally say the funniest things without meaning to. She has a particular weakness for tense arguments and the things people say when they should probably stay quiet.
When she’s not typing or binging yet another movie, she’s juggling three or four books at once, fighting video game bosses while feeding her big cat snacks with the other hand and wishing she had a third hand to drink her cup of white tea, or overthinking plot twists that absolutely need overthinking.