That is the thing Margaret cannot get people to understand, and it is why she talks about it now, to anyone who will book her.

Nobody is ever going to walk into your emergency department and say my husband has spent nine years reducing the number of people who would notice.

Part Five: The Drive to Mission Valley

Sophie Brooks was seven years and four months old on the day of her mother’s funeral.

Margaret had had her since Sunday afternoon, and had spent two days doing the thing that nobody prepares you for, which is telling a child.

Nathan had not done it.