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Rule One Said I Was the Only Person Awake After Midnight, but My Mother Never Sleeps

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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A broke caregiver takes the night desk at an old lake hotel in the off-season, where a laminated card says that after midnight she is the only person awake. Her mother has dementia and wanders every night, and on the first night a man knocks on the glass while he is also asleep upstairs.

Tropes & themes: contemporary · survival · female lead · horror · mystery · small-town · suspenseful · family drama · betrayal · slow burn

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Card (free)
  2. Chapter 2: Black Coffee (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The Desk Keys (free)
  4. Chapter 4: Ask Me Something (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: Curtains (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: December 1931 (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: Christmas Eve (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: Peggy (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: Good Morning, Meg (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: Under the Ice (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: The Late Guest (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: What the Card Is For (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: Erin (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: New Year's (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: Nobody Knocks (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: The Doctor's Daughter (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: Their Afternoon (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: Lantern Night (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: The Offer (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Gate (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: Peggy, Again (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: Ice-Out (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: Checkout (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: Awake (locked)

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