In the Middle of the Night delves into the consuming and destructive force of revenge. Two young souls, orphaned by the brutal hands of faceless "wise guys" at the tender ages of two and three, navigate lives marred by this haunting loss. Their journey takes a dark turn at a theater, a refuge for impoverished children during its annual Halloween magic show, where tragedy strikes. An abandoned balcony plummets onto the unsuspecting audience, claiming the lives of twenty-two children. Lulu, though momentarily pulled back from the brink of death, is profoundly scarred. She and her brother Dave had settled in, hearts light with anticipation. "Ten minutes later, Lulu was dead. Then the nightmare began."

Her life now fueled by bitterness and a singular obsession with vengeance, Lulu's path is irrevocably altered. The theater owner's suicide leaves her without a clear target, shifting her wrath to John Paul Colbert, a mere teenager at the time. Though his actions on the fateful balcony were foolish, they were not culpable—yet the community’s thirst for a scapegoat brands him. He becomes a pariah, wandering from town to town, trailing the ghost of his past. But Lulu is relentless, ensnaring him in midnight phone calls, branding him a murderer. As fate spins its web, Denny, John Paul's son of sixteen, unknowingly steps into this tangled tale. Against his father's stern warnings, he picks up the ringing phone one day, unwittingly becoming the next pawn in Lulu's twisted games of revenge.