The Pact Condition:Good If the oxygenator breaks down

If the oxygenator breaks down

London--a banker and his shopaholic wife

has gone missing

Introducing this collection of stories

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded by some as an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy

The Pact Condition:Good If the oxygenator breaks downThe Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other for eighteen years. They have shared everything from family picnics to chicken pox so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head, inflicted by Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact. He tells the police the