And I was.

I would be there for every hour of every day of it, because I had learned, in a box under the ground, exactly how far I would go for my sons, and the answer was: all the way, and then further.

Chapter 17 — Seeds Require Darkness

The trial began a month later at the county courthouse, and it became, at once, a national spectacle.

The prosecution’s case was airtight — the financial trails, the recovered burner phone, Dr.