I want to be very clear about this, because it matters to me more than any of the rest of it: no Rothwell surname appears anywhere on my daughter’s birth certificate.

She is Aurora Winslow, my grandmother’s line, and I had no intention of using a newborn child as ammunition for cheap revenge.

Whatever I was going to do to the people who robbed me, I was going to do it with documents and courts and the truth — not with my daughter.

She was the reason to win, not the means of winning.

I held that line hard, through all of it, because it would have been so easy to cross, and because crossing it is exactly what people expected of me.