Although seventeen year-old Kate Parrish had departed on her date only an hour earlier, she now stands just inside the front door, staring at her own dark living room. Even with the lights off, Kate notices a few things: on the floor, two wine glasses stained with blood-dark dregs; on the coffee table, a throw pillow exiled from the couch; on the hi-fi turntable, a record spinning, its needle repeating in the groove at the end of the side. Kate goes to the hi-fi as if she mig