Chapters (97)
- Cover
- Back Cover Text
- Praise
- Booklist
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Forty-Eight
- Forty-Nine
- Fifty
- Fifty-One
- Fifty-Two
- Fifty-Three
- Fifty-Four
- Fifty-Five
- Fifty-Six
- Fifty-Seven
- Fifty-Eight
- Fifty-Nine
- Sixty
- Sixty-One
- Sixty-Two
- Sixty-Three
- Sixty-Four
- Sixty-Five
- Sixty-Six
- Sixty-Seven
- Sixty-Eight
- Sixty-Nine
- Seventy
- Seventy-One
- Seventy-Two
- Seventy-Three
- Seventy-Four
- Seventy-Five
- Seventy-Six
- Seventy-Seven
- Seventy-Eight
- Seventy-Nine
- Eighty
- Eighty-One
- Eighty-Two
- Eighty-Three
- Eighty-Four
- Eighty-Five
- Eighty-Six
- Eighty-Seven
- Eighty-Eight
- Eighty-Nine
- Acknowledgments & A Personal Note
- Excerpt
“Each of us paid a price,” Emma said. “Let my daughter go. Let her go!”
“We’re the Skull Sisters—forever! We were supposed to protect each other! Never betray each other! None of us is better than the other sisters. Remember? But you turned on us! You go off and live like the Tullocks! The people who loathed us! The people we despised! But I never got a chance at a life like you. It’s not right. If I can’t have a good life, then you can’t have one either!”
Struggling with Kayla, Nikki sobbed, her grip momentarily loosening. Kayla twisted free, punching her in the stomach.
“Run, Kayla!” Emma screamed, tackling Nikki.
Kayla fled down the road, into the woods, watching as Emma and Nikki battled for the knife. Emma gripped Nikki’s wrists in a frenzied struggle, the blade flashing in the air. But Nikki, surprisingly agile and strong, slashed Emma’s forearm with the knife before Emma climbed on top of her, clasped her hair, smashed her head into the ground, then fled after Kayla to protect her.
“Run, Kayla!”
Nikki scrambled to her feet and pursued them, knife in her bloodied hand.
Kayla ran through the trees, branches slapping and pricking at her clothes and face. Her throat aching, her lungs sore with panicked breathing she made it to the highway, unsure of which direction to go, praying for a car to wave down.
Branches crackled, telegraphing that Emma and their attacker were close behind.
Kayla ran for her life down the middle of the road toward an oncoming car.
There it is.
Following the detailed directions her team had given her, Torrie Tullock rounded a curve in the highway, spotting a bear-shaped rock formation.
She eased off the accelerator. Not far down the highway a girl—a terrified girl—was running toward her, waving her hands. Two other women were running behind her—no, chasing the girl.
Both women were bloodied.
Slowing her car, Torrie concentrated on the women with full focus, recognition dawning—they matched the faces in the most recent photos her investigators had taken.
It’s them. The women who killed my family!
Immediately Torrie pushed down on the gas pedal, accelerating, aiming her car at the women, keeping one hand on the wheel while reaching to the floor for her gun and thinking of what they wrote in her family’s blood.
KILL THEM ALL
At that moment, driving faster than the limit, Ben suddenly came up behind three people running on the highway in front of him with a car bearing down on them from the opposite direction.
What the f–
It happened instantly, so fast, too fast for Ben’s circuits to react—before his brain issued the order to lift his foot from the gas to stomp the brake, before his jaw opened…