Chapter 1
I was Christmas shopping with my mother-in-law when I saw my husband holding another woman’s hand in a crowded Chicago mall.
Daniel stood twenty yards away, laughing in the charcoal cashmere coat I had bought him for his birthday only a month earlier, while a woman I had never seen leaned against his shoulder.
My shopping bag slipped from my hand, but Margaret caught my arm before I could move.
“Don’t react, Emily,” she whispered. “Watch me.”
I stared at her because she was Daniel’s mother, yet somehow
