In S City, Nicholas stands untouchable, guarded by his wife Charlotte, his childhood sweetheart Vivienne, and his sister Liliana. But on his twenty-ninth birthday, Liliana is dragged into a dark alley and killed. When Charlotte defends the murderer in court and Vivienne forces him to forgive, Nicholas’s world collapses. In despair, he opens his grandmother’s music box and dials a mysterious number said to erase every problem—at a price.
