First she claimed Emily had attacked her.

Then that the video was edited.

Then that the documents were simply ordinary planning for our marriage.

Finally she threatened to sue my whole family for defamation if we didn’t stop “destroying her reputation.” I never answered a word of it.

Rachel did, once, in writing, and after that the messages stopped.

But the investigators turned up the thing that told me who Rebecca really was, and it was not new.

Her second ex-husband, a Chicago business owner named Thomas Parker, had reported more than fifty thousand dollars in unauthorized transactions during their divorce.