"KD-"Well," Taryn Edwards said into her cell phone as she stood beside the road, watching the steady Dallas traffic pass by her broken down car, "I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I'm sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes...Probably my watch, too."/ SD- Miranda Grove had known all along that she must choose between hell and purgatory. / TROA- He was the ugliest cat Jake had ever seen."