A little boy learns too late that running your mouth can get you run over. Ayoung babysitter gets in way over her head when she's hired to sit by adangerous man with a strange request. A young couple's hopeful visit to the cityturns anything but when they step into the middle of a mob turf war and watchmore than just friends die. And a young man just trying to help his hustlercousin out of a bad spot instead becomes the ultimate killer. These are onlysome of the eight stories comprising "Killers," the newest arc inthe ongoing world of Stray Bullets. Each story stands on its own, butcollectively they tell the twisted story of two teens -- Virginia and Eli-- both scarred by tragic childhood intersections with the Baltimoreunderworld, drawn together in the sleepy seaside town of Sandcastle, unable toescape their dark pasts....