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

Los Angeles, one year before the Chosen Killings

Piggy had finished the final dancing figure on the wall, painted in the blood of a dead man. Earlier in the day he had removed the cover from the guillotine. Kacey had stared at it for a long time, paying special attention to the blood-stained blade.

Her body was so weak at this point that she could hardly lift her arm or turn her head. She felt like a pile of bones stacked against the wall. Kacey's stomach had become a separate entity, a living thing that gnawed constantly at her insides. And the smell… the smell of decomposition was indescribable. There had been a few times that Piggy had sprayed air freshener but all that did was add an additional, slightly less offensive layer to the stench.

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