Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone

Every deposit was there, every paycheck from March through August, all fourteen of them.

Beneath them, in black: available balance, zero dollars and zero cents.

Bell wrote it down.

“All of it?”

“Eighteen thousand nine hundred forty dollars.” I kept scrolling.

“A cruise line, three cash withdrawals in Miami, Coral Cay Resort.” I paused.

“Two charges of nine hundred ninety-nine dollars.

Shore excursions.”