Vance Legacy Philanthropies was the family’s crown jewel, a high-profile non-profit foundation established twenty years earlier, ostensibly to support inner-city youth education, the thing the family pointed to at every gala as proof of their goodness, the source of their reputation for generosity.

There was no obvious reason for Tessa to be paying large sums to it on my personal credit card.

Charitable donations, if that was what they were, would be strange things to route through an authorized-user card rather than the foundation’s own accounts.

It was a small wrongness, the kind most people would never notice and fewer still would question.

But noticing small wrongnesses in charitable finances was, quite literally, my job.