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On the first day of Christmas a black public defense attorney in a lonely city meets the first person in so long who matters

I told you it was my name, and you believed it. You say it, and for once I believe the sound of it.

The morning after a bar fight.

It is dangerous to be seen with me, and you are too much of a daredevil. One that runs counterintuitive to me. One I love too much for my own good.

Quinn is on his fifth date with Yve Galante, but it's disrupted as he swears someone is following him through the labyrinthine Ladd's Addition.

She wasn't dead.

April and Violet arrive in her hometown, with Violet's father waiting for them.

April gets to know Violet's father, and what Violet doesn't say.

April meets Violet in the garden, starting a journey that takes them through brutal honesty

April faces the ghosts of the past, and David faces the monsters that Jesus cannot stave away