A further exploration of the young man and his family in `Web of Lies' is about the destructiveness of family secrets (some families more so than others). A young man is being stalked by a psychic homeless woman in `Palming the Lady' but it's not just him that needs to worry. In `Shades of Grey' a monstrous millionaire tests both the limits of his ability to heal any injury and society's capacity to tolerate him. The only people fighting crime are the weary, jaded cops - primarily Detective Palmer, whose ability, if she has one, is getting all the fruitcake cases. The stories in Bad Power are about people who possess extraordinary abilities - superpowers - and how those abilities don't make their lives better. "Every kid growing to an adult wants a power.
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