CHAPTER ONE

LOST

Leon had to admit it now. They'd got lost. They'd been driving in Jason's dad's car for an hour, and just seemed to be going round and round in circles. Round and round in circles in the same town, Perdido Beach.

Round and round, until…

Jason's dad.

There.

Gone.

Gone?

The car had stopped, groaned, and then stayed completely still. Leon stared in amazement at the driver's seat.

"What the…?" Max gasped in astonishment.

There.

Gone.

"Dad!" Jason cried, his face a look of shock and horror.

"What just happened?" Leon exclaimed.

Nobody had an answer for that.