Not once, in five months.

That was the detail that Maya found she could not stop thinking about, long after everything else had settled: that a man had conducted an affair for five months with a woman he had tried to kill, and had never once known.

And within a few weeks of getting into his life, Adriana Vance learned that her murderer had married a woman who owned, outright, an apartment worth six hundred thousand dollars, and had spent four years failing to talk her into selling it.

“That’s when it stopped being revenge,” Desmond said, “and started being a business.”