The Girl who Dreamed in Blue

Every dream hides a truth.
Every truth demands a price.

The Somnus Institute built its reputation on innovation.
What it left behind was a death—and a silence carefully maintained.

When acting director Clara Wren inherits the Institute after a young woman dies on its watch, she steps into a building that runs on procedures, donors, and appearances. The Board wants reassurance. The press wants scandal. Clara wants something far less convenient: facts.

As old maintenance logs, forgotten codes, and quietly altered routines begin to surface, Clara uncovers a pattern of institutional shortcuts hidden in plain sight—systems designed to protect reputation rather than people. With the help of a forensic-minded colleague, a photographer who refuses to erase what she witnessed, and a night listener hired to notice small wrongs before they grow, Clara turns away from spectacle and toward accountability.

What follows is not a chase, but a reckoning—where responsibility becomes an act of courage, and doing the right thing means dismantling what everyone else is desperate to preserve.

The Girl Who Dreamed in Blue is a slow-burn literary thriller set in contemporary London, exploring ethics, memory, and the quiet violence of systems that value performance over truth.

Some institutions promise rest.
Others demand silence.
Only a few are willing to pay the cost of waking up.