The Rules of Dreaming by Bruce Hartman

Title - The Rules of Dreaming
Author - Bruce Hartman
Series - None
Release Date - May 23rd, 2013
Publisher - Swallow Tail Press
Format Acquired - eBook via Amazon

Nicole P. is a beautiful Irish graduate student pursuing a doctorate in literary theory. She checks herself in to the Palmer Institute (a private mental hospital in upstate New York), seeking help with anxiety and disorientation triggered by a recent breakup and her quest for a dissertation topic. But by the time she’s discharged two weeks later, her life has become dangerously entangled with those of her psychiatrist, who has fallen in love with her, and two schizophrenic patients, Hunter and Antonia Morgan, 21-year-old twins whose mother, the opera singer Maria Morgan, committed suicide seven years earlier on the eve of her debut at the Met. Nicole becomes convinced that the opera Maria Morgan was rehearsing — Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” — is taking over the lives of her psychiatrist, of Hunter and Antonia Morgan, and of everyone who crosses their paths, until all are enmeshed in a world of deception and delusion, of madness and ultimately of evil and death. She discovers that she too has been assigned a role in the drama, and along with a blackmailer named Dubin she sets out to solve the mystery of Maria Morgan’s death and its uncanny consequences.

Gravity (The Taking #1) by Melissa West

Title - Gravity
Author - Melissa West
Series - The Taken
Release Date - October 30th 2012
Publisher - Entangled Select
Format Acquired - eBook via online library

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed—arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.
Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know—especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.