Roxeanne and Pepper are
a teenage couple with problems. They leave their small town for a
weekend to try and solve them. They don't really succeed, and when they
return home they find their town empty. They call other towns. They
find the whole world empty. But eventually they discover three
other kids their age who are still alive in the town. They cannot
imagine why the five of them seem to be the only one thing in common.
They were each directly or indirectly involved in the death of Betty Sue
- the plain, shy girl who committed suicide only a short time ago.
Betty Sue - the quiet, brilliant girl who wrote short stories about each
of them. Stories of hate, of revenge, of death in a dead world. It makes them wonder who Betty Sue really was. Or what Betty Sue was.
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Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction who specializes in the thriller genre.
McFadden was born in New York but grew up in California where he stills lives in today. A college drop-out, he did factory work, painted houses and programmed computers before becoming a recognized author. Initially unsuccessful when he set out to write science fiction and adult mystery, it was not until his work caught the attention of an editor who suggested he write a teen thriller that he became a hit. The result was Slumber Party (1985), a book about a group of teenagers who run into bizarre and violent events during a ski weekend. After that he wrote Weekend and Chain ... (more)