At John's funeral, a seemingly kind old man stands near John's widow Hope. He is the master of The Crystal, possessor of its light and terror. Hope accepts The Crystal in good faith, praying it contains New Age love powers. But she has gravely miscalculated...

The fictional biography of Vanessa del Rio as a Russian who slept with the USSR's border officials to immigrate to the US for sexual freedom, which included a stint as door-to-door female sex toys' salesperson.