Following a tragic incident in L.A., detective Kacey Dean has returned to her hometown of Pleasant Hills, Washington, just in time to be swept up in a series of murders called the Chosen Killings-- citizens of Pleasant Hills are killing people seemingly at random, saying the words "I am chosen" before committing the murder. Kacey Dean has killed the man she thought was responsible, but she's about to find out that the Chosen Killings are far beyond her, or anyone's, understanding.

I Am Chosen

<p>Hollis pulled his backup gun, aimed at the thing in the doorway and yelled for her— it, to get down on the ground. Ignoring him, Rhonda turned back toward Jack Richards, who had opened the office's back window and was wriggling out. /"Do whatever you can,/" Kacey said on the phone. /"I gotta handle this./" She ended the call. </p>

<p>Rhonda came back out the main door and headed around the building. Hollis replaced the phone in his pocket and yelled for her to stop, but he may as well have been shouting at a rock. The reanimated Rhonda used her limb—which Hollis now realized was her hand, skeletal and freakishly elongated—to spike the ground as she shuffled along, similar to the way an old man might use a cane. Jack ran to the open roll gate and ran through. Rhonda's freak-arm whipped out and latched onto the gate, yanking it back along the fence with ridiculous force. Rhonda shambled through, with Hollis catching up.</p>

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