If I take his money, then for the rest of my life some part of this county gets to believe I was paid to go quiet, and I would rather be poor and known to be innocent than comfortable and quietly suspected forever.

Send it back.”

Chapter 11 — Phoebe Vance

The prosecution looked, for a while, unstoppable, and it might have ended there — a clean case against Flynn, a son who framed an innocent woman to cover his debts.

Then, on a rainy Thursday afternoon, an unexpected visitor came to Damian’s estate.

It was Phoebe Vance.