Something, or someone, is eliminating Evan Delaney’s graduating class. For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn’t realize just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young. And on the night of the reunion, another one is savagely butchered. She’s just the first. There’s a serial killer on the loose. One with a major axe to grind with China Lake’s high school graduates… Meg Gardiner was raised in California and graduated from Stanford Law School; she practiced law in Los Angeles and taught in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.