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An eclectic collection of short stories tackling subjects as varied as psychological mind games, the effects of war on those left behind, the vagaries of heterosexual and lesbian love, self-abortion, and murder, told through characters as diverse as a retired Light Horseman, a lighthouse keeper's wife, and an old Aboriginal man, and set in periods from the nineteenth century to the late 2020s.

Being bullied for the colour of her skin is the least of fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown's problems. Velvet was born with a terrifying second sight. She 'sees' the crazies, the psychopaths, those monsters sliding among us, hidden behind normal-looking faces. There's a double murder in her small-minded town and Velvet has seen the 'monsters' - the murderers. But she can't download on her best friend, Kaleen Pingelly, or even go to the police. No one will believe her. And when love spins into her life in the shape of a sixteen-year-old racing cyclist, a guy so hot he makes Lycra look cool,...