Michael feels like he's losing his mind. Plagued with nightmares and daily visions of horrifying entities, he seeks the help of a strange psychologist, Gabriel. With the help of Gabriel and other masters, Michael begins to hone his astral abilities, but when he and the other students find out that they are training to face an enemy, Cord Cutter, with the power to kill anyone in their sleep, everything changes.
Aaron is a spiritual warrior who works alone and in secret, sworn to stay out of the raging spiritual war. Jane, a young woman seeking to learn spiritual powers to protect herself from dark forces, will change everything. Aaron will be torn between his emotions and his devotion to remaining uninvolved.
Racing against time, Aaron and Michael must join forces to fight the dark enemy that hunts them: the fearsome Cord Cutter and the Iconoclasts, a secretive society with dark and ancient powers. Michael, Aaron, and Gabriel must stop Cord Cutter and convince the world of the Iconoclast's threat, or the reality we know will change forever.
Awakening is the beginning of a spiritual fantasy sci-fi series of Stories of Souls with more guides than Avatar – The Last Airbender, more applicable than Harry Potter, and closer to home than Star Wars.