The moment Vivienne married and claimed her inheritance in her own name, that control would end.

Delilah would have to hand over the thing she had spent thirty years circling.

That was the whole puzzle, and the locket had handed me the missing piece.

Delilah had wanted Raymond and lost him to her sister.

She had wanted his land, and had, through some patient decades-long maneuvering, come to control it.

And now Naomi’s daughter — the living proof that Naomi had won and Delilah had lost — was about to take even that away, by marrying a man of her own choosing.

It explained why Wayne Vance had been circling Delilah’s house for months.