They had killed him by ignoring his warning, and then they had blamed him for it, and the blaming had been almost worse than the loss, because it had reached back and poisoned even her memory of who he was.

And now the records proved, beyond any argument, the opposite of the lie: that in the last days of his life, Nathan had used what authority he had to try to protect the youngest and most vulnerable men on his crew, and had died because the company would not listen.

“I always knew who he was,” Lianna whispered through her tears.

“I knew in my heart he would never ignore a danger to his crew.” She had known.