thereafter : a dead by dawn chronicle a cut-short sequel clarifying the events that come about just after the novel , dead by dawn : the eversors arising , comes to an endingwhich also happens to be the first book in a possible and planned series of fivethis chronicle uncovers the death-dealing war and snare about to storm upon jordan sampa valesquez and her team of preservers in the forthcoming second book of the dead by dawn series .