“We don’t know,” Naomi replied.

“And until we do, we’re not going to accuse her of anything.”

Clara thought of her years inside that house, years spent assuming every room held the truth its owner claimed.

The habit of believing people simply because they spoke with confidence was harder to break than she expected.

PART 5

At the Hamilton mansion, Idan stopped eating dinner at the long mahogany table.

Every evening he asked when Clara was coming back.