Truth and Deception: A Journey Through Suspense and Self-Discovery

In Between Dreams and Nightmares, David P. Warren traces the fragile boundary between truth and illusion—between the stories we tell ourselves to survive and the ones that destroy us. The novel begins with the unravelling of Amanda Hanson’s seemingly perfect life: a loving marriage, a promising career, and a clear sense of who she is. But when betrayal and murder enter the picture, everything stable dissolves, leaving Amanda adrift in a world where every truth feels poisoned and every ally uncertain. Beneath the pulse of the thriller lies a deeper exploration of what happens when one’s moral compass shatters under pressure.

At the heart of Amanda’s story is the haunting question of trust. In a world clouded by lies—her husband’s, the killers’, perhaps even her own—she must learn to navigate not by certainty, but by intuition. As she runs from those who believe she holds the key to missing millions, Amanda also runs toward something else: the chance to reclaim herself. The money may symbolize greed and corruption, but the real treasure Warren examines is the integrity that remains when the scaffolding of comfort collapses. What is left of a person when the life they built is stripped away? For Amanda, the answer lies somewhere between dreams and nightmares—between who she was and who she must become to survive.

Warren’s writing captures the claustrophobia of guilt and the restless ache of self-preservation. Each turn of the plot feels like a mirror reflecting how power can corrupt and how love, when intertwined with ambition, can become indistinguishable from manipulation. Yet, amid the suspense, the novel whispers of resilience—the quiet strength required to face the unknown, to piece together fragments of truth even when doing so might destroy what little safety remains.

What makes Between Dreams and Nightmares more than a chase for justice is its undercurrent of emotional reckoning. Amanda’s ordeal becomes a meditation on responsibility—her husband’s moral failures, the system that enabled them, and her own decision to see what she wanted rather than what was true. The deeper mystery is not who killed Brian, but how people come to live with the shadows of choices they never meant to make.

Through Amanda’s desperate journey, Warren paints a world where deception is currency and truth, though costly, is the only real escape. Between Dreams and Nightmares is a story about losing everything that defines you and discovering, within the chaos, the flicker of something more enduring: the will to begin again, no matter how deep the darkness runs.