2008 Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Long Fiction

Includes an introduction by the writer

Resolution. Cause. Respect.

Among U.S. lovers marrying today, approximately 40% will divorce. About half of those will have children during the divide. Ensuing ugliness will engulf the lives of both divorcees and offspring. They are able to in most cases expect years of legal fights, deceit, rage, despair, baiting, vitriol, manipulation, and hurt. Perhaps there is another way, a better way. A way that allows about The Shallow End of the Pool for quality, cause, and respect. An agreement, of kinds, but one which confronts instead of masks the myriad issues accessible. Lays them all out on the desk. Settles the problems once and for all within an honorable industry. Something direct. Fair. Last. Adam-Troy Castro, Hugo/Nebula/Stoker-nominated author of the SF novel Emissaries through the Dead, brings you a brutally horrific tale of the best settlement in the fight of broken-hearted wills. Petty power has have been restarted. The facade of decency is definitely shelved. For one blistering week within an left behind desert motel, you will see no excuses, pleading, or games. Only quality, reason, respect.

And blood.