CHAPTER 1
LOUD.
Why was it so loud? Kennedy’s knee-high boots clicked against the hard floor of the science hall. She glanced over one shoulder and then the other. Who was staring at her? She sensed his presence, felt his eyes — ominous black beams boring into her soul. She looked around, but all she could see was the crowds of students, milling, giggling, oblivious to fear and danger.
She should warn someone. There had to be almost a hundred students filing into the lecture hall to take their chemistry final. Didn’t they know someone was watching them, waiting for them? No, waiting for her. Everyone else was safe. Kennedy was his only target. She glanced behind her.
Her imagination, or something far more insidious?
She longed for the days when stress meant finishing a paper by its de
