Shock Lines — Warren Newton Beath

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