His father, Dunstan, moved in the city’s financial circles.

Percival had always described them as cultured, traditional, close — and the house seemed to prove it: antique furniture, oil paintings, a library, family portraits marching down the hall in matched frames.

And then Yvaine appeared, and the whole picture cracked.

Chapter 3 — The Sleeve

She was the wife of Emmerich, Percival’s older brother — a man supposedly away for weeks on business overseas.

Yvaine looked about thirty-four.