“No,” I said.

“I think he finally has.” In the months that followed, my father took a plea that included prison time, full restitution, and a permanent bar from ever managing another person’s finances.

My mother received house arrest, probation, and restitution that cost her the vacation property she’d loved more than most people.

And Chloe lost the boutique that had never really existed, declared bankruptcy, and served six months in county jail, most of it earned not by the original theft but by lying to the investigators about it afterward.

Chapter 16 — Truth Deserves a Frame

A year after my grandfather died, I opened the Harrison Vance Center.