After a painful and costly divorce, Faith has moved back to her hometown in Oak Falls. After living back here in less than a week, her house has been robbed and her car has been broken into – twice. Fed up in living in such a crime infested area, Faith grows angry. After filing her third police report, the police reveal that the crime is high because young people in the town have grown addicted to heroin and they are looking for money to support their drug habit. Faith takes it upon herself to not only become her own crusader against crime, but confronts the very beast in which is against her – the beast of morality.Through a roller coaster of emotions, Faith begins her courageous journey to not only reflect against why the world has taken such a sudden turn for the worst, but why she feels such anger towards the very instinctual thing that makes us all human - CHOICE. Buying a gun after her last straw is broken, Faith has to make a very difficult choice. Fight for the rights of herself to become finally free of crime? Or surrender to the heart of the human condition? Which would you choose?

NOTE: This is a short novella of 30,000 words