title: A Waking Dream: A Novella
author:  Kathryn Evans 
description: Kathryn Evans has been writing since she was fourteen years old and has been telling stories in her head for as long as she can remember. She was raised on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, and Dr. Seuss. As she has grown older, she has also developed an affinity for classics such as Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. She dreams of one day having drinks with Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman, Felicia Day, and Patrick Rothfuss. She is a movie junkie, a book nerd, and a coffee addict. Above all, she is a lover of stories and of storytellers, in whatever form they come.
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  > The Tears in Midnight
  
  > A Calata Novel
  
  > Sue Wilder
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
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  THE TEARS IN MIDNIGHT by Sue Wilder
  
  Copyright @ 2019 by Sue Smith
  
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  > prologue
  
  The thing about dreams, Katerina thought, was that once you woke up, you
  realized they weren’t real. Not the pounding of your heart. Not the terror.
  The struggle to breathe.
  
  She dreamed—most people did. Some dreams she remembered. Others were gone
  before her eyes were open. Someone t