...Only the First Time You Kill... or Death's Apprentice Miss Millie Powers, a stalwart young woman of 19, has been attacked and hospitalized. This high school senior has forgotten what has happened to her the night of the spring formal. She has been in a coma for a while and her injuries have delayed her return to a normal way of life. Millie's life has been seriously disrupted that's nothing compared to the disruption she will levy upon those people that have attacked her. This is a story of revenge, justified and premeditated, and a call to settle the score against those who are secretly and overtly her enemies. The police department's investigator, Bradley Daggers, must solve the string of bizarre murders that have plagued the little hamlet of Springdale. These murders are so unusual and are happening so fast that Bradley Daggers cannot unravel the clues fast enough to stop them from happening. In fact, the high school seniors are being murdered with such frequency that the mayor is considering shutting down the school. This is a murder mystery that will hold the reader's attention throughout its entirety. Even the seasoned mystery buff will not see this one coming.