Sometime toward the end of Leo Thomas' junior year, the tiny college town of Epshire became home to four axe murderers, two of them serial killers. No one could say why, exactly. And no one could make the killing stop. "Sever" is a coming-of-age novella wrapped in a horror story wrapped in a love letter to college, a time when you're supposed to be invincible, a time when you're not supposed to be able to die.