The other deputy held up her purse, with the default notice and the casino markers poking out the top.

“Ma’am, you’re going to want to quit talking and call a lawyer.”

Dwight was hit with a charge of felony child abuse.

Brandi was charged with child neglect and failure to report.

The court gave me emergency custody that very afternoon.

My lawyer and I got the mortgage caught up within nine days.

The house stayed in our hands.

Gloria drove down from Tulsa the following day with a new lizard for Finn in a shoebox that had holes poked in the lid.