The fifth instalment in an occasional series of short stories covering the elapsed time between the books in The Falconer Files series.

Abigail Wentworth is looking forward to her reunion lunch with Alison Fairweather. They are old schoolfriends who met twice a year, usually for Alison to dish the dirt on the others they had known when they were younger - and for Abigail to gloat over their 'inferior' circumstances, in comparison to her own respectable existence.

During one such lunch, though, Abigail recognizes a face from the past - and from that moment onward, her life skids completely out of control...