CIA agent Sarah Walker is sent to Burbank to retrieve the stolen Intersect program and terminate Chuck Bartowski, its recipient. Her mission proves to be the most difficult of her life, unsettling all she knows, pitting her against her own past and her own profession, demanding nothing less than a change of heart. — But how can a woman with no heart change her heart?

Chuck Bartowski, Stanford student, has vanished without a trace. His disappearance creates a disturbance on campus and ripples to his sister's apartment in LA, to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and to RGB Headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Everyone seems to want Chuck Bartowski, to want him found, but no one wants anyone else to find him. A mystery tale.

Sara Walker's in Barcelona, deep cover. It's New Year's Eve — the eve of her 40th birthday. A CIA agent for more than twenty years, she's past her prime, jaded, numb, going through the professional motions, nothing more. Until a man named Chuck carries a message to her in a bar and she's drafted into a new mission, into reevaluating who she is and who she's been. Short story.

Christmas 2021. An unhappy, hyper-focused insurance CEO has lost hope for romantic love. But she suspects that parental love will make her happy. She impulsively hires a computer installer as her assistant, believing that he might be the perfect sperm donor for the child she desires. The installer does not realize that his new job is fake, an extended sperm-donor audition.

Novella. A long-time CIA agent is one mission away from a long vacation. She hasn't decided where she will go — she just plans to *go*. But then her mission goes sideways. She ends up someplace else.