Chapter 1: The offer About three in the morning, a whooshing sound had awakened Luca. He heard shuffling somewhere in the house. Luca followed the sound downstairs. In the living room, he met the darkened figure of a woman, slightly shorter than him. “Beth? Is that you?” Beth was a former girlfriend whose quirky side led her to stalk men at odd hours. Luca still missed her. Luca’s call to Beth was met with silence. A burg...