Presented by: Steve Wheeler Producer, Dr. Charles B. Hensley Producer. Hensley Productions   Contact: Dr. Charles B. Hensley  

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL * Richard Alfieriis a supernatural thriller set in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara that explores themes of immortality, betrayal, power, and love within the vampire underworld. The story centers around Grace, a centuries-old vampire who was once human, and her dangerous quest to control a revolutionary formula that allows vampires to walk in sunlight.

The narrative begins in a posh Los Angeles nightclub where Grace, an elegant but distressed woman in her late twenties, catches the eye of a man named Sky, a young, handsome vampire watching her from afar. Grace is running from Dr. Vinson, a scientist who developed a supernatural potion—an advanced sunblock that grants vampires immunity to sunlight. Vinson’s wife, Cara, was burned to ashes in a mysterious murder, which Grace may have knowledge of, making her a target.

Grace’s past is gradually revealed through flashbacks: she was seduced and turned into a vampire by Vinson, who was secretly involved in vampiric research. Vinson had created the potion to allow his wife, Cara, to walk in daylight, but after she begins to develop immunity, she is murdered in a ritualistic fashion, burned alive beneath a tree. Grace was involved in the scheme, and her connection to the potion and the murders makes her a hunted woman.

As Grace and Vinson’s relationship deepens, she discovers that Vinson plans to turn himself into a vampire to escape mortality, and he seeks the formula to ensure his own immortality. Meanwhile, Orozco, a powerful and manipulative vampire, also covets the formula for ultimate control. Sky, a vampire with a tragic past, is obsessed with finding a way to walk in the sun again. He and his ally Augie experiment with a chemical potion that temporarily grants sunlight immunity, but it fails catastrophically, turning Augie into a deformed, blistered mess.

The story intensifies as the characters’ true motives are revealed: Vinson, Orozco, and Grace are all willing to betray and eliminate each other to possess the formula. Orozco is shown to be an animalistic predator, killing his own kind, including Cara and Dina, a lover of Vinson, to maintain dominance. Grace, caught in this deadly web, struggles to maintain her humanity and morality.

Throughout the narrative, alliances shift, and characters are sacrificed. Sky ultimately sacrifices himself by walking into the sun, knowing it’s the only way to end Orozco’s reign of terror and to gain a chance at daylight. Grace, in a final act of defiance, manipulates Vinson into believing the formula is flawed, using her twin sister—a vampire who was turned long after Grace—to trick Vinson and escape her cursed existence.

The story concludes with Grace choosing to abandon her vampire life, walking away from the darkness into the dawn, seeking redemption and a fleeting hope of a normal human life. Sky’s sacrifice and Grace’s final decision symbolize the enduring human desire for light, freedom, and renewal, even in a world of shadows and death.