Headlights pierced the late night blackness and lit the twin hedgerows that marked the entrance to the Heavenly Garden Memorial Park, the oldest cemetery in Austin. The car made a right and crept past rows of dark headstones, some dating back to the Texas war of independence.
Shadows danced strangely amongst the graves and the few trees shifted like hazy figures slinking away from the car’s high beams. The crunch of tires on gravel broke the silence until the car pulled to a stop, and the quiet descended again.
“How long ya gonna be?” asked the guy with the long blond dreadlocks riding in the front passenger seat. He swallowed hard as his head turned like a hoot owl, studying each shadow as if he expected a demon or some other phantom to leap out.
“Long as it takes,” replied the driver, a thick-shouldered guy in his late twenties. His hand cruised over his burr haircut as he gazed in the direction of a cluster of headstones.
“This is too spooky,” the long-haired guy said in a tone barely above a whisper. His eyes locked on a shadow about ten yards off to the left. “Somebody’s over there.” Panic sounded in his voice as he pointed toward the center of the graveyard.
The driver looked where the guy pointed then laughed at him. “Aww, shut up, ya pussy. It ain’t nuthin.”
The driver got out and stood for a long moment, clenching and unclenching his fists as he surveyed the grounds.
Rampage Description:
The stakes soar both professionally and personally for Austin PD Detective Jason Scarsdale as he finds himself in a race against time to hunt down a vicious gang hell-bent on murder.
Realizing that his new partner, the attractive divorcee Tatum Harper, could be trouble in more ways than one, he tries to run her out of Homicide.
Will their partnership destroy his romantic relationship with long-time girlfriend Dani Mueller? Will they both survive the harrowing face-off with the increasingly unhinged gang leader?
