title: Welcome to Death Central
author: Miss Thea Julian Boyne
description: Thea Boyne is a young Wisconsin author who enjoys reading and writing.
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  His heart pounded with worry about what could be wrong.
  
  
  A knock sounded at the door. Then another and another.
  
  
  “William?” Julianne’s plaintive voice.
  
  
  He threw open the door. “Are you all right?”
  
  
  She stood on his doorstep, her hair wet, her eyes wide and confusion in her
  gaze.
  
  
  “What’s wrong?” he asked.
  
  
  “The man in the bandanna came back,” Julianne said. “He hovered around outside
  and then disappeared. I was wrong about remaining at my house. I can’t stay
  there alone, William.”
  
  
  He opened his arms and pulled her inside, feeling the beating of her heart and
  the softness of her embrace.
  
  
  “Who’s doing this, William?” Julianne dropped her head in her hands. “Someone
  wants me to leave my property. I don’t know why, but I need to find out who it
  is and why he wants to do me harm. I...”
  
  
  She looked up at him. Her eyes glistened with tears. “I need your help. I
  can’t do it alone.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Debby Giusti** is a