My chosen network produced six federal marshals and an ocean-spanning legal apparatus.

Who comes for the woman with no family?

It turns out the answer can be: everyone she has ever earned.

And that is a great many more people, and a great deal more formidable a force, than the blood relations Evelyn was so certain I lacked.

Chapter 20 — Inside Her Resolve

Six months later, the morning sun poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows of my new home in California.

The legal fallout had swept through Julian’s life like a category-five hurricane, and because his crimes had crossed international borders, involving both the abduction of a child and the theft of federal identification documents, the prosecutors showed no leniency at all.