Shock Lines

WELCOME TO EARTHQUAKE COUNTRY

Phil Strayhorn knew she was evil—and not entirely human.

The bold advances and haunting sultry caress of the seductive teenage girl were setting off alarming quakings inside the 32-year-old high school teacher, shocks that tore at the rifts in his soul.

Then the atrocities began to unfold in the quiet little California desert town: a teacher found blue-lipped dead with his pants around his ankles; a student decapitated in the hot black night; two more kids mutilated in an unexplainable car crash.

I had to be her.

Gina wanted something from Phil; wanted to use him for a very special purpose; and unless he found a way to resist her, he'd be forced into a void as dark and bottomless as the cracks that sometimes opened with the angry tremors of this dry, quaking earth… SHOCK LINES