She wasn't on the guest list. She came in through a service entrance, in a dark coat, with tears on her face. She wanted one thing: for the Senator to hear her son's name.
Three months earlier, a twenty-three-year-old college student walked into a convenience store to buy milk... and never walked out. The gun that killed him was manufactured by the Senator's wife's family.
Now Grimes has a new face on the board. A grieving mother with a motive shaped like a bullet. But grief and guilt don't always point where you think they do... and the deeper Grimes digs, the more she realizes this case isn't about who was angry enough to kill. It's about who was afraid.
The DNA results come back. The case against Nate Brannick starts to crack. Grimes drives two hours to a dead man's house and finds...
Claire Brannick kept files. Thirty-one years of child welfare cases, and buried in the paperwork, a trail that leads somewhere no one expected. Grimes...
Ellis Whitmore is arrested on a Tuesday morning. The case closes. But for Nate Brannick, what comes after the truth is harder than what...
