Devon Wallace, detective, stared at the dead man. There was something unusual about it; something... unnatural. This is a companion story to the Mary Phan series, set in the same universe.

'I have this friend, right? She saw something. Something really bad. A crime. They saw somebody commit a crime. They think they should go to the police. But my friend's afraid of recrimination. You know, somebody coming after them if they tell. What should they do? Should they go to the police?'

Mary has just witnessed something horrible. Something she could never begin to cope with; something that she caused, or perhaps committed...