Let her go on not knowing.

That ignorance is the very gift I have spent twenty years trying to give her.

It is the shape of my love, and it is invisible on purpose, and it always will be.

Chapter 20 — The Most Important Duty

Six months later, the morning sun came across the back patio of our ordinary house in our ordinary neighborhood, and the air smelled of coffee and the honeysuckle along the fence, and my daughter sat across the table from me, healed.

The legal process had been swift and total, in the end, because there was nothing left for the families to fight with once the truth was in federal hands and their own web of corruption had been pulled into the light alongside it.