Mercy Springs (The Rested Book 1)

The water makes you sleep. The problem is what wakes up afterward.Tess Marlowe hasn’t slept through a night since she was sixteen. Working the night shift at an isolated sleep clinic in the New Mexico desert suits her just fine.Then Mercy Springs finds water.Drawn from an ancient aquifer nearly a mile underground, the newly discovered spring seems miraculous. Patients sleep deeper than they have in years. Chronic pain disappears. Nightmares vanish. Exhausted people wake feeling younger, healthier, completely restored.Then come the nosebleeds.The missing memories.The patients whose brainwaves begin moving together.And the people standing motionless outside in the middle of the night, humming the same endless note.When a flash flood cuts the clinic off from the outside world, Tess realizes something came up with the water. Something old. Something that spreads through sleep—and changes people so quietly that by the time you notice, the person you knew may already be gone.Now Tess and a ten-year-old boy with narcolepsy may be the only ones it cannot easily reach.To survive, they have to stay awake.But every human body eventually sleeps.MERCY SPRINGS is Book One of THE RESTED, a claustrophobic survival-horror series about an ancient discovery, a remote sleep clinic, and the terrifying price of the perfect night’s rest.