Rituals of the Night

For fans of Nightmare on Elm Street and the 1989 classic Heathers comes Dead by Morning, a supernatural thriller that combines the angst of a high school drama and the gore of a nightmarish slasher. "He was real, and he was a monster." Obsession is deadly. No one learns that better than Luna Ketz, a pessimistic high school senior. Caught between the intentions of her stern father and business-minded mother, boys are the last thing on Luna’s mind, but this fact doesn’t detour mysterious bad boy Chance Welfrey from trying to gain her affection.

Three years after her senior year horrors, Luna Ketz struggles to move on. Starting over in an apartment in Bowling Green with her new roommate hasn’t made things easier. Nothing helps, including weekly check-ins to ensure her assailant, Chance Welfrey, is still in a coma. When he disappears from the hospital, Luna’s worst fears are realized. Chance remembers everything. The next time she sees him is on her doorstep. He’s found a new way into her life, and this game of cat and mouse will take all of her wits to survive.

With memories of her dead family and friends haunting her, Luna Ketz tries to untangle her life from the hold Chance has had on her over the past four years, but it’s harder than she thought. In death his secrets are revealed, plunging Luna into the mind of the man who ruined her life. Thoughts of her soon-to-be-born baby only bring to mind its monstrous father. Haunted by a new set of dreams, Luna fears her baby will grow up to be a carbon copy of him.

Luna Ketz never thought about life after death. That is until she woke up after being murdered. Caught in limbo between the waking world and the land of the dead, Luna has no choice but to face her demons. Literally. In order to find her son, Asher, she submits herself to the mercy of her long time enemy, Chance Welfrey, but his knowledge may not be enough to save them from their twisted past.

Murdered by her rival, Chance Welfrey, left Luna with the impression that she would be forced to live forever in Purgatory. After being offered a deal by Morpheus, the God of Dreams, Luna is given a second chance at life. Back on Earth, she can’t speak due to the healing injuries that killed her, and she finds herself in police custody as the primary suspect in the murders of her friend, Amy, and mother, Rose.

With Epiales, the God of Nightmares, resurrected in the body of Luna’s sister, Cassandra, the stakes have never been higher. Luna and Chance find themselves trapped in the Compound at risk of discovery and death. In a seemingly kind gesture, Cody has agreed to protect them from Epiales’ wrath, but he has secret motives. Ones that could prove fatal to not only Chance but Luna as well. In DreamWorld, Max and Asher have a mission of their own. Now a teenager, Asher has questions about his parents. Questions only they can answer.