Author: THE CHAPTER STORY

PART 2 “Now, why don’t you ask her where she got the money to buy it?” Mark stared at his mother. Barbara’s lips parted, but no words came out. For …

PART 3 “He’s the person your husband paid to make sure you never came home from work tomorrow night.” For several seconds, I couldn’t move. The phone remained pressed against …

PART 4 59:42. 59:41. 59:40. The numbers continued falling across my phone screen while my house burned behind me. Firefighters dragged hoses across the lawn. Police officers shouted into radios. …

PART 5 “There was never a body in his coffin.” The words should have sounded impossible. Instead, after everything that had happened that night, they sounded like the final piece …

PART 6 “The tunnel led directly toward an active freight line.” Dr. Patel stared at the blinking location signal on the archive screen. The red dot moved steadily beneath the …

PART 7 ASK YOUR MOTHER WHY YOUR SISTER HAS BEEN HIDDEN FOR THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS. I read the sentence again. Then again. The live security feed showed Claire Vale standing inside …

PART 8 SINGAPORE. TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. COME ALONE. For one second, nobody inside the underground laboratory moved. The white card lay on the empty ambulance stretcher in the security feed. Lauren …

PART 9 “I’m sorry, Sarah.” Snow blew through the open aircraft door as my father stepped into the cabin. “But if Rebecca reaches Singapore before I do, every child in …

For one terrible second, nobody spoke. Walter killed Thomas. My father. The man whose house I now lived in. The man who stole bacon from my plate and complained about …