There was no scandal to manage in the end, only a crime to document, and a documented crime does not depend on rumor or prayer.

It stands on paper.

Matías, who had counted on the convent’s silence to protect him, learned that the silence had ended the moment a clean strip of tape landed on a stone floor.

Chapter 18 — What to Do About Soledad

The harder question was Soledad.

She had smuggled a fugitive into a cloistered house.

She had stolen from her own infirmary.

She had, with her own hands, drugged sisters who trusted her, night after night, for years.