Extracts

LABOR DAY, 3:17 A.M.

Welcome to Reboot with Kayla!

If I were a character in a classic slasher film, I'd be the first to die.

Ra-pa-pa-pa-pa.

Audrey Mendes caught a bus from the ferry wharf to the first strip of small shops.

It is, of course, impossible to be certain of what is contained in anyone’s chest,

‘Well?’

Jon rolls off me and I pull the bedsheet to my chin.

It’s an honor to be waiting outside the school gates in the winter cold.

Sometimes you find a piece of yourself you never knew existed.

Hazel Bates has been keeping a close eye on the man at the corner table since they arrived at the Bellevue Hotel.

The man is tall and has dark tousled hair.

Forty-one per cent of Americans set New Year’s resolutions.

‘Merry Christmas Ali. Try not to kill anyone.’

Jack hadn't wanted to go but Kate had pleaded with him over the phone.

Jana stood beneath a lonely, old swamp paperbark.

The vacant industrial space that Realtor Gretchen Wik was trying to unload was located in a recently gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood called Bushwick.

If only the hands on Anton's watch would cease to move.

It was a bright, well-dressed morning in early May, and the Swifts were in the middle of a funeral.

As I stroll into town, I feel like I’ve been transported back in time.

Grace Winter strode through the sun-drenched throng in Times Square with the patriotic vigour of a red-blooded American

Welcome to The Vagus Nerve Reset.

The first thing I do when I arrive on the island is change my name.

In the next town over, a man had killed his family.