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Major/Minor Characters: Eugene, Balinda, Kevin, "The Riddle Killer", Samantha, Jennifer (cop)

Theme: Mysterious and Intense

Questions: 1. What is the importance of hte guy from the hot dog stand form the begining of the story? The man killed jennifer's brother and this was because he hated "copycats". Also, Kevin stole lines from his book.

2. What do you think was the reason for Kevin to become crazy. Kevin was kept isolated as a kid and Balinda stopped him from socializing, therefore Kevin created his own world and continued that way because he was raised from the roots that way.

3. Why did Kevin create a Slater? Slater was created because Kevin couldn't live in a perfect world. Samantha was created as the "heaven on earth" for Kevin as to Slater being the "hell on earth" for Kevin. Kevin felt that he was the one in between of both these extremes.

4. What was the meaning of "where the worms hide thier secrets"? This meant someplace underground, under the earth, also it is someplace where Kevin recalls from his childhood that he saw worms in his yard.

5. Who do you think is at fault for this entire scenario; ex: kevin making up slater and making trouble for himself and the public. Balinda - She took Kevin and hid him from humanity from the start. Balinda isolated Kevin from the rest of the world and Kevin made up his own world, and this cause him to make a fantasy of romance and danger.

Summary: Slater is in his shed and he calls Eugene telling him that Balinda has been taken away. Eugene is Balinda's husband, and is also a very quiet and awkward man. Eugene is startled and he calls Kevin to find and rescue Balinda. Kevin goes to the house to get more information from Eugene. Eugene says he knows nothing and Kevin searches for clues. He goes to the basement and he sees another riddle- "where the worms hide thier secrets." Then kevin runs to the garden shed where he believed the riddle was pointing at. Kevin finds out that Slater did take balinda and then calls samantha to come to the garden shed. Samantha comes to the shed and Jennifer calls Samantha as she was on her way. Samantha ends the call with Jennifer short because she said she was in a hurry. Jennifer finds where Samantha is by tracking her phone. Samantha and Kevin get captured by Slater, and Slater took them by gunpoint.

Jennifer reaches the shed and then is totally surprised by what she saw. Kevin is Slater and Kevin had been a schizophrenic man from the start. Jennifer yells at Kevin and tells him that he is Slater and he is going crazy and Kevin had imagined Samantha from the start. Samantha never existed, she was just a made up imaginary friend to Kevin. Kevin is taken and brought to a mental hospital.

Guy with a hot dog cart from beginning arrested for the riddles. He had killed Jen's brother in beginning of book from that car bomb. He said that he did it because he hates "copycats" and "line thieves" and Jennifer had stole lines and ideas from a book he wrote and Jennifer used them in a magazine article that was a big hit (Kevin also stole lines for his thesis).

-Fastfoward 3 months -> In the end we find that the only true murderer was the man with the hot dog stand. Kevin is healed and he has recovered from the mental hospital and now is talking to Jennifer in a calm and serene matter. END