Cara Swann
Prologue: Murdered! Both of them...dead, gone forever! How could this have happened? How could her parents be dead, when less than a week ago they'd been alive and well? Chelsea Seymour stood near the freshly dug graves, an umbrella protecting her from the softly falling April rain. She still couldn't believe they were gone. Even as the minister solemnly spoke his last words; even as the crowd of bereaved family and friends began to drift away; even as she saw the two coffins being lowered into the gaping holes which would forever prevent her looking upon those two dear faces again.
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