It's not hard to imagine: Melissa graceful and willowy and aware of it, wanting to be something more exciting than a Navy brat in a new town, and Dana tagging along. What else would there be to do? Craiger was tiny; it must have felt like the middle of nowhere, coming from California.

"You got there after the case was wrapped up," he murmurs, carding his fingers through her hair, "and I was probably out of the country by the time teens started dying. So it's you, your sister, and Carinda. Where does Sunlight come in?"

He's there, of course, lurking in the background. They both encountered him. But he clearly flew under the radar enough that no one looked askance at him, even when the deaths started piling up.