Angelina McKenna

Angelina McKenna is a main character in the Stalker Series, who serves as Zara's best friend through her lifetime. She first appears in the 2020 novel She Who Stalks The Night, and later appears as a minor character in the 2021 novel, Dead or Alive. A teenager fascinated with psychology, she is seen as the only one who prevents Zara from totally descending into madness.

Background
Angelina McKenna was born on an unknown day in 2005, to Donald and Mary McKenna in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Not a whole lot is known about her childhood, and the only major known landmark event was in 2014, when her younger sister Carlotta was born. Just like Mary, both McKenna girls were blondes and in decent shape. As she entered middle school, Angelina started getting into psychology and true crime. She would check out books in the library and loved binge watching police procedural shows.

Donald and Mary both provided a good, hearty living to both Angelina and Carlotta, and especially supported Angelina's blossoming intrigue in theater and the arts. This is where she met two of her friends, Mya Cahill, and Cole Golstone.

Angelina was praised by her teachers for her brilliance and excellent schoolwork and work ethic, especially in science and English classes, which she thrived in. The teenager was an exceptionally social girl, often times being berated for talking too much, which often distanced herself from other people.

Stalker Series
For reference, Angelina did not appear in He Who Stalks The Woods as she was in no relation to Pennsylvania and anywhere outside of Fayetteville at this time.

She Who Stalks The Night
Angelina is first introduced in chapter 2, when she introduces herself to Zara at her first day at Massey Hill Classical High school. Obviously, these encounters are told by Zara/The Reaper's point of view, so we can only draw conclusions. It seems as though Angelina was very eager to meet and become friends with Zara. She later inquires about her arm, but quickly drops the subject after realizing the issue has a traumatic background, and she doesn't want to risk her friendship so soon.

Later that night, after a school theater audition, Angelina returned home to find the horrifying sight that her family, or to her knowledge, only her parents, had been brutally murdered. The killer attacked them, knocking Angelina to the ground before forcing her to watch him strangle Mya to death. After the killer fled, Angelina cried out for help, attracting the attention of off duty cop Scott Butchoy who holds her sobbing wreck of a body close, promising to find the killer, instantly believing this case, and the other double homicide he had been investigating were connected.

The FBI questions her for her point of view, which she doesn't hesitate to give, before asking Scott for her sister... before learning she too was dead.

On Halloween, it appears as though Angelina is recovering, even after martial law is locked down across the city. The entire city will refuse to cooperate with this, as Fayetteville has erupted into riots as well in front of city hall. She inquires if Zara or Cole will join her to go trick or treating, to which they both laugh. It is unknown how Angelina would spend Halloween night, but it is obviously clear she was aware of the massacre the Reaper undertook on that night.

While staying with Detective Butchoy, she struggles to get through the next few weeks. When her school releases for Thanksgiving, she practically breaks down in the halls, having no family to stay and celebrate with. This is when Zara invites her over to spend the weekend and Thanksgiving with her and her family, to which Angelina accepts without any sort of worry. She spends the time with Zara, and they become even closer friends. It is after this point that Angelina begins to consider Zara her best friend. She meets Zara's brother Asher, his girlfriend Josie, and her father Arthur.

Angelina doesn't appear for a few more months, but it is thought she believed the Reaper was caught, and that it was Arthur Brooks, Zara's father when that who dilemma went down. Believing it to be safe, she resumes her part time job of babysitting, this time of the Butchoy's six year old daughter Selena. However, she soon realizes this was a horrible miscalculation when the Reaper attacks them and butchers Selena in front of Angelina. She learns the Reaper is Zara, and that she is horribly mentally ill. She tries to get Zara to turn herself in, but in the process, scares her enough that the Reaper violently attacks her, though the details are left up to the imagination. What is made clear is that Angelina sustained a Glasgow Smile from the attack, scarred and now comatose in the hospital.

After Angelina is revived, she learns Zara has turned herself in, and will be tried by a court of law. Angelina volunteers, alongside Josie Cooper, to testify as witnesses. At the trial, Angelina takes a neutral stance, not defending Zara, or what she had done in any way shape or form, but agreeing with the position that she suffers from an extreme mental illness. When Zara takes the stand, knowing she is guilty, but aiming to simply lower her prison time and avoid the death penalty, Angelina hears the truth behind her backstory. When the trial is about to conclude, and the jury proclaims Zara as obviously guilty, the judge inquires from the witnesses, the jury and from those in the courtroom if they believe Zara has any good left in her heart, Angelina was one of the ones who raised her hand.

Dead Or Alive
Angelina had visited Zara regularly throughout her time in prison. Scott Butchoy adopted her, and she was getting ready to go off to college, when word came that Zara had broken out of prison, though Angelina was completely unaware as to why.

Twenty years later, Angelina is now a successful Interpol agent in the UK, and Richie Torla, one of Zara's prison buddies has learned what her new identity is. Joined by Josie Cooper, they go to Exeter, England, where they confront Zara, now known as Kayla Greenwalt. Kayla is hostile towards Angelina when hearing she is a 'fed' though Angelina keeps these fear to a minimum. They chat just like they used to, just like when they were two normal friends. Kayla explains to Angelina why she escaped prison, leading Angelina to sympathize with her, and actually forgive her for the crimes she committed. This is because of her new, successful life, helping people who were victimized by people like the Reaper.

Angelina would also visit Zara off and on for the rest of their lives, and their relationship became normal again.

She lived a healthy, long life with her husband and son Josh, who himself became an Interpol agent in his late 20s.

She would publish five more novels on serial killers and on her life in the FBI and Interpol.

She died in 2087 at the age of 82.

Personality
Angelina is portrayed as very excited and outgoing. She is the standard, run of the mill extroverted teenager, with friends, a good social life and such. She is mentally stable, and has no problems with life until her family is murdered. From there on she is confident and brash, and determined to see the Reaper brought to justice. In her adult years she is portrayed as calm, collected and gentle, perhaps due to her being a mother and a married woman. She is generally seen as easygoing and easy to get along with.

Trivia

 * 1) Despite all that happened to her, Angelina was never diagnosed with any psychotic or mental disorders.
 * 2) Angelina did not do anything to cover up the scars the Reaper gave her, and openly embraced them.
 * 3) It is unknown what Angelina's path to the FBI, then Interpol was.