- During Janus stay at a psychiatric hospital, the letters from Amina was what kept him alive. Now the letters have stopped, so he sets out to find out what happened to her, whatever the cost may be.
- While visiting her school's forbidden attic, Mandie stumbles upon the mystery of a long forgotten Christmas.
- Philip Purdon is a doorman of the Upper East Side in New York. He works in a fancy building by night. Before being a doorman he was a famous boxer (he won the Golden Gloves in 1968 at Madison Square Garden) but in 1972 he got shot by two drunk police officers in the Bronx. One bullet in the knee and another in the shou…