She nodded, and wiped her face, and said, “That’s fair.” And it was fair, and they both knew it was, and there was a strange, cold cleanness in the fairness of it that was worth more, in the end, than any embrace could have been.

Chapter 14 — The Dam Breaks

Phoebe’s folder transformed the case completely.

It was no longer a corporate embezzlement investigation into a single dishonest son.

Federal prosecutors opened a formal inquiry into obstruction of justice, evidence tampering, and conspiracy — and this time the names on it were both Flynn Vance and Arthur Vance.

The family reacted with the fury of the powerful discovering, late, that their power has run out.