My story starts with eight coins. Not seven, not nine. Eight. Eventual Five/OC

A three installment cautionary tale about a daughter, an orphan, an urchin, a hero, a friend, an historian, a shinobi and many more things. But most importantly, a tale about love.

It was that man's fault. The man with the ridiculous name that wooed my cousin Lucille. Tyki Mikk, or something like that. It was maddening how she was blind to the man's manipulation. It was a craziness that everybody ignored.

Before the 'Stuff the police is too incompetent to notice' notebook there was the 'Hale's fire' notebook. It marked the beginning of many years to come of monitoring life in Beacon Hills. And in the spotlight, the Argent family. But without real proof the invisible lines drawn could not become more than nonsense from a crime novel fan. Eventual Derek/OC.

Jin travels with an unlikely adventurer and they speak.