When Chelsea runs to the store for a last-minute purchase for her first year in the college dorms, she may get more than she wanted when she meets a terrorist in the parking lot.

Chelsea stares at the array of school supplies sitting in her backseat: a dozen notebooks, three fabric lunch boxes, two backpacks, and other things her mother bought that she hadn’t even had the chance to look at yet. One of the lunch bags matches one of the backpacks. She rolls her eyes and sighs.

She shoves one of the last-minute things she just bought—a plastic storage bin—into the already nearly full backseat, and turns back to the bright red Target shopping cart. The heavy, long rectangular box of un-put-together pieces of a chipboard shelf stares back at her. “This is like playing Tetris,” she says to the nearly empty parking lot, and glances around, looking for an employee. “Of course not,” she says, exhales sharply through her nose, grabs one side of the box, and pulls. The box refuses to budge.

She sighs and glances at an old boat of a car as it drops off a tall man dressed in black work pants and a heavy black mechanic’s jacket.

“Whatchoo lookin’ at?” he sneers. He stares down at her from just a few parking spaces away, his features nearly blurred out by his dark skin, which is almost the color of her Labrador at home.

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…well written, action packed and [has] a great twist ending. (Ness)