For Ten Years I Drained My Savings to Rescue My Three Grown Children — Then I Woke From Surgery to Learn They’d Filed a Court Petition, While I Was on the Operating Table, Citing Every Loan I Ever Gave Them as Proof I’d Lost My Mind

That is the reverse of a setup.

A setup manufactures a false version of a person.

I had done nothing but stop protecting the world, and myself, from the true one.

Chapter 16 — Finally Home

Malcolm stepped forward with the deputies.

“Trent, Bianca, and Wade Brennan,” he said, “you are served with a temporary restraining order barring you from this property, from contacting Mrs.

Brennan, and from touching any of her assets.

The State Attorney’s Office has opened a criminal investigation into attempted elder financial abuse and the filing of false declarations before a court.”