Can Samantha Survive?

Samantha Fitzhugh leads a quiet, wallflower life in the genius class

of her high school. She never knew her father, and her mother is off in

Antarctica, absorbed in a career as an archaeologist.

A series of freakish events in the school has her on the verge of being

expelled. Out of the blue, the hottest boy in the class invites her into his

family to stay until her mom returns.

There she finds warm and loving parents, even if they are a bit strange-

a professor father with profound arcane knowledge and a psychic mother

who reads minds and casts spells. They believe that the vestiges of some

inherited power are starting to emerge from her. They caution her that

high school is a hormonal time. If she wishes to go down this road, she

must retain her chastity.

Meanwhile, a mad artist is spontaneously producing paintings of

Samantha that have become a focus of worship for a gang of crazed,

meth-dealing bikers. They believe she is the descendant of Inanna, an

ancient Sumerian goddess from the lost planet Nibiru.

The gang leader is a former college professor with a murderous thirst for

vengeance against those who drove him out of the profession. He believes

in Samantha's magical descent and her link to a planet with a 3,600-year

orbit that will bring it smashing through the Earth's solar system.

He wants her and intends to possess her, no matter who he has to kill.