Damon had money, and a good suit, and a plan, and a schedule, and every advantage a clever man could arrange.

What he did not count on was that some bonds do not switch off when a heart stops.

My daughter had wanted, with everything left in her, for the truth to be known and her child to be safe — and that wanting had reached out of her, somehow, through a seven-year-old who loved her, and would not be quieted until it was done.

Call it what you want.