“Including everything.”

Chapter 7 — The Name She Hid

At the far end of the office, a door opened onto a small private dressing room, and inside it waited a deep sapphire gown and, beside it, a diamond necklace that had belonged to her grandmother.

Ottilie Danforth had built a regional construction outfit into one of the most respected private investment firms in the country, and she had left it, at her death, not to a committee or a board but to her granddaughter, who had taken over at twenty-nine.

Isadora had inherited more than a company.

She had inherited a name that changed the temperature of every room she entered, that made strangers calculate before they smiled, that turned every relationship into a negotiation she hadn’t agreed to enter.