ACCOUNTABILITY Roseanne Eckroyd is an evil woman who runs a house of prostitution and believes she is accountable to nobody. When she gets pregnant, she gives birth because she's afraid to have the unwanted child-which she considers a cancer-cut from her body. She allows the girl to live because it amuses her to watch little Ruth struggle. Eventually, a customer offers to buy the child, now a young teen, for his son's birthday party, and Roseanne realizes her genius in keeping the brat. She repeatedly sells her daughter, gleefully raking in the profits until another customer buys the child...

BACKFRIEND Trooper Dennis Wilson is a good man. He is murdered because he's the only one to see the true psychosis behind a teenager's games. The night he dies, Dennis refers to his killer as a backfriend, an enemy in disguise. It's one of the few clues the investigators have. Paul Saizan and William Lee are half-brothers who were raised separately. They met ten years after their father betrayed both mothers, and the young boys instantly became best friends. Now adults, one is a psychopath who wants to control everyone in his path. The other is either an innocent man who truly loves his...