{"product_id":"the-princess-who-collected-nightmares","title":"The Princess Who Collected Nightmares","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrincess Amara Kingsley has spent her life performing a sacred duty. Born with the rare ability to enter the nightmares of her kingdom's people, she is trained to harvest their darkest fears and seal them inside delicate glass vials. Her family calls it healing. Her father, King Cedric, calls it the duty of their divine bloodline. To Amara, it is simply the burden she must carry to keep the kingdom peaceful and prosperous.But the nightmares are changing.During one of her routine harvests, Amara discovers something impossible hidden beneath a soldier's dream: a celestial doorway surrounded by freezing light and ancient symbols. Soon, the same mysterious \"hum\" begins following her into the waking world. When black rot appears in her sister Lillian's dream and begins leaking into reality, Amara realizes that something buried beneath the royal palace is awakening.Following forbidden maps and ancient clues, Amara descends beneath the palace and discovers a horrifying truth. The kingdom's prosperity was never a divine blessing. Deep beneath its foundations lies an ancient celestial being imprisoned by the first Kingsley ruler. Golden chains siphon the creature's energy into the palace, feeding the kingdom's unnatural abundance while keeping the entity unconscious. The nightmares Amara has collected for years are not simply human fears-they are fragments of the captive God's stolen consciousness.Then comes the most devastating revelation: Amara herself is part of the prison's design. Across countless cycles, a royal daughter with the Dream-Eater gift has been manipulated into helping the Kingsley dynasty maintain the God's imprisonment. Amara is a Fragment of the entity's own consciousness, repeatedly sent into the world as an instinctive attempt to awaken what has been imprisoned.Now Amara must make an impossible choice. If she frees the God, the kingdom she knows may collapse-and the identity of \"Amara Kingsley\" may disappear with it. If she obeys her father, the ancient theft will continue.She chooses the truth.Returning from the God's cosmic consciousness, Amara understands that her final sacrifice is not her life, but the illusion of the identity she was forced to accept. The Dream-Eater has finished collecting nightmares. Now the princess must decide whether to become the instrument of the kingdom's destruction-or the first person brave enough to set its captive heart free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shaundra J Woodmore Madison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50342279315813,"sku":"9798256296445","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_4d79ef5a-6699-45b1-98d9-4bbb3c7d7dc2.jpg?v=1788627824","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/the-princess-who-collected-nightmares","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}