Intensity is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1995.
Chyna Shepard is a college student visiting the family of her friend, Laura Templeton, for a long weekend. The victim of a violent, unstable and abusive childhood, Chyna finds the Templeton house provides something she has yearned: acceptance. This is dispelled when Edgler Vess, a serial killer, breaks into the house in the night and methodically kills all of the occup...
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Intensity is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1995.
Chyna Shepard is a college student visiting the family of her friend, Laura Templeton, for a long weekend. The victim of a violent, unstable and abusive childhood, Chyna finds the Templeton house provides something she has yearned: acceptance. This is dispelled when Edgler Vess, a serial killer, breaks into the house in the night and methodically kills all of the occupants except Laura and Chyna.
Chyna hides under her bed from him and waits until he goes downstairs. She searches the house and finds Laura's father shot and tied to a toilet seat, and the mother stabbed to death in the shower. Chyna encounters Vess on the stairs eating a spider before she sneaks into Laura's room. She finds Laura tied up and raped. Chyna sneaks away, promising to return. Before she can intervene, Vess kills Laura and takes her to his motor home. Chyna hears Laura screaming and runs upstairs intending to attack Vess with a...
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