Awake but not Safe

The system isn't broken. It's working flawlessly. And that is exactly what makes it deadly.

Monique Yorkshire is an expert at becoming invisible, a crucial skill for her covert reality as a CIA analyst. Operating under the mundane persona of a strip-mall business manager, her world shatters when she discovers her sister is entangled with Connor Wray—the very target her handlers are monitoring. Forced to accelerate her timeline to protect her family, Monique infiltrates Connor's executive suite, uncovering a terrifying data trail hidden inside a localized corporate marketing campaign.

But Connor is no low-level tool, and the trap is already closing. Confronted in her own home, Monique survives a brutal assault only to be left unconscious in a staged car wreck at the bottom of a treacherous Colorado ravine.

Stranded between two worlds in a complex, trauma-induced coma, Monique's subconscious fights through a surreal alternate reality guided by a mysterious presence named Gabriel. Meanwhile, in the waking world, the clock is ticking down to a national catastrophe.

When a massive, unprecedented cyber-attack seals federal buildings and begins systematically plunging the country's power grid, telecommunications, and global resources into a coordinated blackout, the FBI is forced to go completely analog. Teaming up with Special Agent Reed Thomas—the one man determined to pull her back from the brink—Monique must push her physical body past its breaking point to expose the inside players manipulating the system from the shadows.

Awake But Not Safe is a masterfully revised and heavily expanded edition of the novel previously published under the title The Long Road Back. Packed with deep psychological angst, high-stakes espionage, and an airtight romantic suspense trajectory, this blockbuster thriller exposes a chilling truth: the corporate normalcy we trust is merely an illusion.