Before Waking: Some Nights Don’t Stay Asleep

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Some nights don’t end when you wake up.

Mara Vale has spent years managing a dangerous condition: episodes of complex sleepwalking that leave entire hours missing from her memory. But when a brutal assault occurs only blocks from her home — and the evidence begins pointing toward her — the fragile systems she relies on to separate reality from fear begin to collapse.

As investigators close in and buried tensions from her failed marriage resurface, Mara uncovers signs that someone may be exploiting her condition for reasons far more calculated than she imagined. Every answer creates another fracture in the truth, and every missing hour becomes a weapon.

Before Waking is a cerebral psychological thriller steeped in paranoia, procedural tension, and emotional dread — a story about memory, manipulation, and the terrifying possibility that the mind can be turned against itself.