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Kitty, Episode One

Early one bright October morning, Kitty Walker stood outside the front door of her house for the last time.

In one hand she held a purse and two sets of keys: house keys chained to a small, white whistle she had found outside the grocery store where she always shopped, and the keys to her gray Honda, which was parked in the driveway. The last time she had pulled in, its left tires had overshot the gravel, crushing the edge of the grass.

Before sliding the front door key into the deadbolt lock, Kitty looked down the street that had been her world for nearly 17 years, past handsome oaks and neat yards, toward the intersection beyond. Hers was a split-level brick, ordinary in every way.

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