What if the person you only encountered in your sleep started to feel more real than anyone you knew while awake? That is the haunting premise of Sleepless, the debut novel from Sharon Elizabeth and the first installment in her Road to Redemption series.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The story centers on Dahlia, whose dreams become an unexpected meeting ground with Emrys, a mysterious man she has never met in her waking life. What starts as simple curiosity deepens into an undeniable bond between two people who, by all logic, should never have been able to cross paths.
Yet the dreams are merely the opening act.
As their realities begin to merge, the novel expands into a larger supernatural narrative filled with tangled relationships, unforeseen twists, and characters whose decisions blur the lines between love, loyalty, betrayal, and sacrifice. At its core is the question that gives the series its name: What does redemption look like after a choice has changed everything?
A Road of Her Own
Sharon Elizabeth is a native New Yorker who writes dark romance infused with paranormal and fantasy elements. A lifelong reader and storyteller, she is drawn to flawed characters, complicated relationships, and stories that resist simple distinctions between heroes and villains.
Becoming a published author brought an unexpected plot twist of its own.
After completing her first novel, Sharon Elizabeth discovered that writing the story and bringing it into the world were two very different challenges. The road to publication brought exciting firsts alongside unexpected setbacks, difficult lessons, and the realization that an author sometimes has to become the fiercest advocate for her own work.
Even after publication, those challenges continued. What she expected to be the moment she could finally focus on reaching readers instead became another difficult road to simply getting her story into their hands.
Still, she kept moving forward.
“Writing a book was something I dreamed about for years. I just never imagined how much I would have to learn after I finished writing it,” Sharon Elizabeth says. “There were times when I felt like I was fighting harder to get the story into readers’ hands than I had fought to write it. But I believed in these characters, and I wasn’t ready to give up on them.”
Then, in September 2026, that long road led to a moment she never imagined experiencing with her debut novel.
Sleepless appeared on a billboard in Times Square.
For a native New Yorker whose first novel begins with an impossible connection found in dreams, seeing the story she had fought so hard to bring into the world towering above Times Square brought the journey unexpectedly full circle.
Sometimes, dreams do come true.
Book Details
Title: Sleepless
Author: Sharon Elizabeth
Series: Road to Redemption, Book One
Genre: Dark Paranormal Romance / Supernatural Fantasy
Formats: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
Availability: Amazon and participating retailers worldwide
ISBN: 9798906574848
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Why it matters: Sharon Elizabeth’s story underscores how the hardest battle for many authors isn’t writing the book—it’s navigating the publishing landscape afterward. Her journey from a debut manuscript to a Times Square billboard serves as a testament to perseverance, and it signals that even in an era of digital noise, a compelling premise about love across realities can still capture public attention in the most iconic of settings.
