Dreary Fiction

A Midnight Dreary, the long-awaited fifth volume in The DeChance Chronicles, picks up outside Old Mill, NC, when Donovan, reminded that he has promised his lover, Amethyst, and Geoffrey Bullfinch of the O.C.L.T., a story, draws them back in time to a vision of the final chapter of the novel Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss & Edgar Allan Poe.

When tragedy strikes, Victoria Ravenwood inherits the crumbling estate of Ravenfell Manor, hoping to find solace within its ivy-choked walls. Instead, she discovers a house alive with sorrow, secrets, and whispers of the dead. Gabriel Allward has guarded Ravenfell for years, his mysterious presence as rooted as the stones themselves. Cold and distant, he carries a secret that binds him to the estate—a truth too dangerous to share. Yet Victoria is drawn to him, even as the shadows close in.

Once upon a midnight dreary, Poe sang to me quiet and eerie.... After the events in March, IMPD partners Lieutenant Jonathan Greene and Detective Courtney Shields know they cannot stop until they find the man Aeron named before he died. But when a series of murders, which look vaguely like ritual killings directly out of Edgar Allan Poe’s works, take place, Courtney and Jon know they are dealing with the same madman as before and they are no closer to figuring out his true identity. The only thing they have to go on is a name; Rob.