Grip Of Night

Dallas James has just moved into his dream house. It is his dream house simply because it is the house where the murder of Lola Gaines happened thirty years ago. It is the case that pulled Dallas into the world of True Crime writing and set him on a beautiful career path that keeps getting bigger and bigger. The house has just become available after the previous resident passed away from a heart attack and Dallas has managed to snap it up for a steal. He plans to work on a novel about the Gaines murder and he hopes it will be his ticket to a publishing deal with a big company.All is well and good until he starts receiving the phone calls. A menacing voice telling him to get out of the house or he will be sorry. At first Dallas chalks it up to silly pranks by neighborhood kids or someone else who has it in for him. But then the harassment escalates to threatening letters and strange packages. When he finds a neighbor's dog dead in his home one day Dallas knows that he is in grave danger. He has been targeted by some madman who will stop at nothing to destroy his life. Aided by the beautiful girl across the street Anna Grimes, and his new friend Detective Pat Cruise, Dallas is about to find out what happens when he goes from writing true crime to living true crime as he races to find a savage psycho right out of the pages of one of his books. Will Dallas survive The Grip of Night?