A Dream to Die For

A Novel

Susan Z. Ritz

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631525582
• Subtopic: Crime & Mystery Literature
• Index: Literature

In Riverton Falls, a small New England town, globe-trotting bartender Celeste Fortune stands in her kitchen puzzling over last night’s frightening dream—a woman at a window, lilacs blowing in the breeze, someone’s hands tight around her neck. Celeste is sure the dream belongs to someone else. Perhaps she has finally broken through to the collective dreams of Dreamland cult. Hoping her therapist and cult leader will help her untangle it, she heads off into the cold November morning to her final appointment with him—or so she hopes. Her estranged fiancé has delivered an ultimatum: Leave the cult of Dreamers, or end their relationship for good.
Instead of help, however, Celeste discovers her therapist dying in a pool of blood, skull stove in by his own healing crystal. His computer, containing the intimate dreams and secrets of half the town, is gone. Suspicion immediately falls on Celeste, known to be a rebellious member of his cult. To clear her name, Celeste enlists the help of her old friend, Gloria. But when the two women discover the power of the stolen dreams, they unwittingly become the killer’s next target.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Chapter One: Morning In Riverton Falls
• Chapter Two: The End
• Chapter Three: Tarot Tricks
• Chapter Four: Reunion
• Chapter Five: Tumbling Down
• Chapter Six: Learning To Dream
• Chapter Seven: Pearl of A Girl
• Chapter Eight: Gloria! Gloria!
• Chapter Nine: Celeste Confesses
• Chapter Ten: Drinking Again
• Chapter Eleven: Heading Home
• Chapter Twelve: Things That Go Bump In The Night
• Chapter Thirteen: Dreaming Again
• Chapter Fourteen: Dreamland
• Chapter Fifteen: Deja Vu All Over Again
• Chapter Sixteen: Turn of The Tarot
• Chapter Seventeen: Lunch At Murphy’s Bar
• Chapter Eighteen: Astral Projection
• Chapter Nineteen: Renaissance
• Chapter Twenty: Rachel
• Chapter Twenty-One: Reclamation
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Night Ride Home
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Back At The Bar
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Achy Breaky
• Chapter Twenty-Five: Pearly Girly Night
• Chapter Twenty-Six: Dreams To Remember
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Library
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Funeral
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Last of Larry
• Chapter Thirty: Crow’s Nest
• Chapter Thirty-One: The Hermit
• Chapter Thirty-Two: Under Rachel’s Stars
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author