I knew because a text came in every hour.

All clear.

The next day, the case moved faster than I thought possible.

Detective Ramirez called at noon.

A health-care fraud investigator from the state attorney general’s office had joined him, and so had an agent from the FBI.

They had been quietly looking at a small medical clinic in Fort Worth for almost a year, a place called Bright Horizon Pediatric Wellness, run by a physician named Dr.

Delia Crane.