Why would an eight-year-old have a prescription like this at all?”

Detective Sorenson was quiet for a moment.

“That’s what we’re going to find out.” Then she told me the thing that rearranged the whole world.

The pharmacy records showed the same controlled medication filled three separate times over the last four months.

And when they’d called Mira’s pediatrician, he told them he had never written a single one of those prescriptions.

Not one.