Please enjoy this preview of Brian Lee Meyer's first novel. I decided I would commit murder. I was in agony for months. All my life I cared for two people above all others, Mishael, my closest friend since childhood, and Dinah, my cousin, with whom I was in love beyond reason. I confessed my love for Dinah to no one. No one but Mishael. For years I hoarded coins like a miser for her dowry. At night I lay in bed imagining the sound of her laugh and her dark, mischievous eyes.