My parents skipped the funeral of my husband and two children because it was my sister’s birthday.

struggle.

“You want my house?” I asked.

Vanessa smiled gently. “You don’t need it anymore.”

My gaze moved to the framed photograph on the mantel: my husband holding our children at the beach, all three laughing in the wind.

Then I faced my family.

“You’re right,” I said quietly. “I don’t need anything from you anymore.”

They mistook my words for surrender.

They were wrong.

They’d forgotten my husband was a forensic accountant.

And before the accident, he’d uncovered something…..

The first clue waited inside Daniel’s locked desk drawer.

I