For Evan Delaney, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn't realise 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 the night of the reunion, another one is savagely butchered. She is just the first. There's a serial killer on the loose. One with a major axe to grind with China Lake high school graduates...