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 follows it. She doesn't like where it goes.
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...
A housekeeper named Maria Gutierrez is seventeen minutes from the end of her shift. A retired man is dead in a bathtub two doors...
A name surfaces. A county file is unsealed. The DNA tells a story about a family that rewrote its own history, and Grimes begins...
