4338.214 · August 2, 2018 AD
Wine and Wounds
A gunshot. A bottle of wine. Two desperate women. Gladys needs to retrieve her dead partner's body. Sarah needs evidence to vanish. What begins with wine-soaked panic becomes calculated conspiracy—portals opening on command, impossible bargains struck. Some deals are signed in ink. This one was sealed in shiraz.
August 2, 2018. A gunshot from Luke Smith's house. Police lights everywhere.
Gladys Cramer—drunk, grieving, desperate—slides into Detective Sarah Lahey's car with an open bottle of wine and an impossible request.
Sarah's been surveilling Luke's property, disobeying orders. Her blood is inside that house. Her fingerprints are on evidence. The net is closing.
Gladys offers wine. Then leverage.
Two women. Two impossible problems. One desperate bargain.
Gladys needs her dead partner's body retrieved before it's too late. Sarah needs evidence to vanish before her career ends in handcuffs.
What begins in panic becomes conspiracy. Portals. Cremation. Inter-dimensional theft.
Some deals are signed in ink.
This one was sealed in shiraz.
