It had cost her only a marriage that had been quietly starving her, and a corner she’d been ordered to stand in, and a man who would price her by whatever number the room assigned.

She would remember that the truth had been the cheapest thing she ever bought and the most valuable, and that the door which came open that night had not been unlocked by her father at all.

She had opened it herself, the moment she stopped asking permission to be seen.

Chapter 17 — The Truth of the Crash

Months later, the DNA tests confirmed what the two halves of the necklace had already said.

And the investigators uncovered something worse than an accident.