Prologue

Northside versus Southside. Lodge versus Serpent.

Katherine Sofía Lodge sits dumbfounded as Archie recounts the night. She could all but feel the echo of the gunshot, the scream from Archie's lungs, the pain Fred felt. Jason Blossom and now Fred Andrews.

When the Lodge family dragged their asses to Riverdale - 'the town with pep!' -, Kat never imagined she'd be thrown into a murder mystery, nor did she imagine her twin sister playing Scooby-Doo with the town's Nancy Drew and co.