December 30th, West 10th Street, Greenwich Village. A young woman was murdered. The victim's name was Sarah Shields. She had been entrusted with a huge sapphire that was insured for a large amount of money by someone. With her death, the sapphire disappeared... Judd, a former detective who is now an insurance investigator in Manhattan, contacts J.B. of his former workplace to investigate the murder and the sapphire's whereabouts... A completely different story that takes place in the same world as "Manhattan Requiem." J.B. races through the streets of New York in search of the truth.