Murder Creek, pop. 4999. For Janis Graystone and Scott Spruel, it's the vacation they've long needed. No superhero training. No nation saving. Just a week of rest and relaxation, even if it happens to be with Scott's screwy parents. But when someone breaks into their beach house and dogs begin turning up blood-drained, the pair of Champions launch into action. Scott suspects vampires, namely the motorcycle-riding hoodlums who loiter in the town's amusement park, while Janis's intuition speaks to a more pervasive evil, one that lurks in the town's shadowy past. Soon enmeshed in a murder mystery, Janis and Scott must scramble to piece the clues together before the killer strikes again. Or strikes them. Cry Little Sister is the first standalone novel in the XGeneration collection and can be enjoyed without having read the other books in the teen paranormal thriller series. Rated 14+ for language and moderate violence.