Spring Broken

Spring break, 1963. Half the campus has taken over Fort Lauderdale: convertibles on the strip, transistor radios on the sand, and nobody thinking past Saturday. Ana Chandra has a paperback, a cold drink, and a week to forget the semester.

Then the tests begin. A wallet planted in her bag. A stranger who knows where she grew up. A note slipped under her motel door in a language only she could read. Someone is pushing her, hard, to see where she breaks.

Someone else wants to make sure she never gets the chance. When a body washes up beneath the pier and a shadow follows her down the beach at sunset, Ana learns there are two players in this game, and only one of them wants her alive.