Kirjahaku

Amanda T te Jaune is a beautiful young M tis woman, with a seven year old daughter and a sadistic ex-husband. While learning the ropes as a private investigator, she gets saddled with an alcoholic street person as a new partner. The job is supposed to be simple, but things aren't what they seem, and soon it all goes terribly wrong, leaving Amanda in hiding, and running for her life.

'Whenever I think about the office, I think about a monumental, epic tale. Movies and books usually make offices out to be places filled with quirky little people living quirky little lives. But we faced death, and disease, and attempted murder, and suicide, accidents, and misadventure, and deceit and lying, and noble deeds and courage and triumph and despair, and everything in between. Sometimes on the same day.'

In the middle of the night, twelve-year-old Latesha Washington awoke and looked out her window and saw hundreds of bats crashing into each other and falling to the earth. On the ground a huge black box- like thing, fuzzy around the edges, sat immobile. Some bats smashed into the side of the box and others flew right through. The next morning, the box was still there. The day was sunny, but the box made no shadow. Then the ground started to shake, and the weather began to change . . .

Greer is a young engineer called home from Africa after her uncle sustains a severe head injury, and her grandmother is admitted into long-term care. As Greer uncovers the pieces of their lives, what she begins to uncover doesn't add up. She questions the things she thought that she knew, and her findings bring revelations that threaten her life.