Clarence Avery is having dinner at home when TV News reports that a man named Clarence Avery is wanted for murdering his boss and co-workers. Clarence doesn't remember doing that. Tyler's buddy Miguel is recruited by a strange mind-bending cult. Tyler escapes to find that the U.S. is being quietly overrun. He meets Micki, the only other person he can find who hasn't been Changed. Claire and Donald buy their starter home, a 1950's Cape Cod. In their back yard, they discover a long-forgotten underground fallout shelter. Inside is a body. The Trees of Malice contains these stories, and more. Here are people like you, caught up in events where the world they know crumbles. Some of these stories could happen, even if unlikely; others take place only in the improbable world of the mind. Welcome to the land of Malice - where things aren't the way they seem...