Chapter 1

It would be so easy.

She could end it all right now. No one hurt. The world saved.

But she had always been selfish. She didn't want to die. And yet she did.

Tanith was gone. Gordon was gone. Her friends now knew who she was, what she would do.

Wouldn't it be so much easier, save so much angst and heartbreak if she just stepped forward into the rough rope?

It would.

She should.

It was calling her. The cool nothingness. She knew what it felt like to die. She wasn't scared. All she had to do was put one foot in front of the other and...

Nothing.

She felt death take her, felt all her troubles melt away. It felt good. Welcoming. Calling her into the depths.

She saw the note she had left on the table.

She saw nothing.