Horizon Builders. Horizon Builders was a commercial subcontracting firm owned by none other than Uncle Richard.

My husband wasn’t only an adulterer waiting for his mother to die. He was buried to the neck in corporate fraud.

And from the dates on those deposits, I understood, with a sick lurch, that the fraud wasn’t finished. It was only sleeping — and I had just woken it.

Chapter 4 — The Freeze

At nine the next morning I walked into Vivian’s bank branch.

With the certified death certificate, the will, and Harrison’s legal injunction, I executed a hard freeze on the entire estate.

“Per federal regulation, no withdrawals or transfers can be processed until probate concludes,” the teller confirmed, stamping the paperwork with a heavy, final thud.