Chapter 1: The Morning That Shouldn’t Have Happened Stanley Baxter wasn’t what you’d call a “morning person.”He was more of a “morning hostage”—dragged out of his dreams every day at exactly 7:00 A.M. by an alarm clock that sounded like a dying robot. This morning was no different. BEEEEP! BEEEEP! BEEEEP! Stanley groaned, rolled over, …