I forwarded it to counsel.

At midnight I opened the calendar where I’d once recorded fleet acquisitions and client dinners.

On Monday’s square I wrote one word in capital letters: HAZEL.

I had missed the first months of her life.

I was determined not to make the mistake of treating what came next as something I could schedule entirely around myself.

PART 11

The anonymous envelope’s origin emerged in an unexpected way.

Dana received a call from a woman named Marian Briggs, Walter’s estranged daughter.