The Midnight Draft

The dying man’s lips move, but the voice isn’t his—it speaks Maeve Kellan’s name before the hospital goes black. When the elevator doors open again, she is standing inside a condemned theater, with a bloodied script in her hands. Every night, the audience must perform a murder to survive, and Maeve has been cast as the nurse who watches everyone die. Her only guide is Eli Mercer, a beautiful amnesiac understudy who always plays the killer—and whose touch feels dangerously real. But every life Maeve saves onstage demands a replacement death in the real world, while the theater’s merciless rules punish every changed line and step offstage. Now the final black script has written Maeve as its leading lady—will she let Eli kill her at curtain call, or sacrifice the entire city to rewrite her ending?