Charlie Brunswick and the Encrypted Room

Charlie Brunswick has never fit in. He misses jokes, misreads people, and spends most of his time in his own head. But when he falls asleep, his mind does something impossible: it turns nightmares into puzzles. One night, Charlie solves his way into a place that shouldn't exist. The headquarters of the Subconscious Control Agency, a secret organization that protects humanity's dreams from bleeding into each other. The problem? Their security was supposed to be unbreakable. The bigger problem? Something ancient noticed him break it. Now the SCA wants to train him, and something called the Hive wants to recruit him. Both say they're offering Charlie a place to belong. Both say the other side will destroy him. Charlie doesn't know who to trust. But for the first time in his life, his brain, the one that never works the way it's supposed to, might be exactly what the dream world needs. If he can figure out whose side he's on before someone figures it out for him.