Prologue
Jennifer Larken drove through the streets of Phoenix, Arizona at one-thirty in the morning. She was going home after night school.
Her family had some financial problems and, since she had flown through school, graduating collage and sixteen, she was working for NASA during the day and earning her doctorate by night. The NASA job wasn't huge but it was something and she could get promoted after she finished her doctorate.
The streets were far from deserted on any given night. Phoenix never slept, ever. There was elways someone on the streets, whether hookers, druggies, or partiers to druck to get where they were going.
Tonight, unlike most nights, there was next to no one on the roads and Jen drove home. It didn't bother her, being a Monday, it was the quietest night of the week.
She drove into the intersection and saw headlights coming toward her. She heard the impact before she felt it. Her head slammed against the driver's side window and she blacked out.