When the God Himself is asking for your help, would you be able to refuse Him? And what if His request can destroy your whole life?
A car, racing at high speed, a suicide bomber, a bandit's knife on the night street... Is it possible to anticipate and prevent those terrible events? It is possible, of course, to become more careful and more prudent in everyday life, but not in the case of terrorism. The world does not know the salvation from this plague of the 21st century. How to stop a man, for whom the death is the highest good?
A provincial doctor, who lives on the peninsula of Crimea, a part of the former Soviet Union, saves people from premature death, reprogramming their fate, thus saving those, who appear close to them in the fateful hour.
"He is not the God, he's just a charlatan," a journalist Sasha Krylova thinks, whom the chief editor of a respectable capital newspaper, where she works, has sent to the Crimea to write about the doctor's unusual method. Sasha is sure that he just earns on people's misfortunes. However, having visiting the doctor's sessions, the journalist was shocked - everything looked too real and too scary. But why do they ignore his discovery? Trying to understand whether he was he the genius or a charlatan, Sasha gets back... more and more corpses. Who is responsible for their deaths - the doctor or the matter consists in her?
The situation is becoming too dangerous, the journalist decides to interrupt the trip, but if someone plays cat and mouse with her. Her escape from the Crimea ends up with her kidnapping. Now, in order to survive, she has to take part in the experiment. This is a very dangerous and unpredictable way, but how amazing to keep the fate of another person in your own hands.
Gradually, however, the experiment becomes more and more unpredictable, the life of the man that has once betrayed her, turns out in her hands...
A criminal mastermind makes a bold move against a wealthy client to put himself in a position to retire in comfort. He has no idea what he's up against when a young widow, desperate to make ends meet, sets her eyes on earning the bounty set on his head.
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Newly widowed housewife Melody Scott needs to earn some major cash, fast. When her bright and busy children learn that a priceless ruby bracelet has been stolen and a six-figure reward is being offered, they convince her to try to do what the police, museum security, and the best private investigators have failed to do. Working against them is a notorious thief who has met people from around the world, but who has never once encountered a woman like Melody Scott. When the sweet innocence of the Scott family clashes against criminal forces more dangerous than they ever imagined, Melody is all too aware that a mom's got to do what a mom's got to do to protect her family.
The Widow, Melody Scott is a 2021 Watty Award Winner!
Content Warning: This story does contain depictions of stalking behavior.