The Summer We Lost Alice (41 page)

Then there's that gang of kids that hangs around the reservoir ... not one of them can look you in the eye without breaking into a cold sweat. They're keeping a secret, and it's got them all on edge.

Something's going on in this town of ours, something that makes your skin crawl and your teeth grind in the night. I don't know what it is, but I know this:

It scares me.

NOTE: Contains profanity, violence. No explicit sex.