LOST DREAMS BOOKSHOP by James W. Bullard

The old bookshop has been around before people can remember. An aging
caretaker is finally being replaced and the new manager realizes the shop itself is sentient. The bookshop survives by deriving energy from its patron's lost dreams and uses that energy to manipulate people. A series of barely interacting victims who have shopped in the store over the years are telepathically summoned to return to the shop and gather on a single day not realizing their fate is in the hands of the sentient shop.

James W. Bullard lives in Colorado with his girlfriend, his son, and a spoiled Aussie shepherd. Writing is a hobby along with watercolor painting and drinking craft beer.