And then I turned to the very top page, the cover sheet of the whole file, and I saw the words printed across it in crisp dark ink, and the floor of the world tilted under me.

Chapter 10 — My Name in Dark Ink

My name.

My full legal name, printed across the top of that cover page in clean official type.

Evelyn Vance.

For a moment I could not breathe.

I read it again, certain I had misread it, certain there was some other explanation, some coincidence.

But there was no misreading it.