PART 10: “I want the car to mean something,” he said. “Not just to be worth something. Those are different.” “She was quiet again.” Outside, a car…

PART 9: Stimius once in a 2017 charity auction where he’d purchased a fragment of what was claimed to be original Caldwell Rice bodywork later determined to…

PART 8: She had stopped making explanations for it after the first time, which Adrienne appreciated because he had noticed during the explanations that she was better…

PART 7: Outside Sycamore Drive was waking up. He could hear the Nwen kids voices, distant, a car starting. The Saturday sounds of an ordinary neighborhood with…

PART 6: something more complicated than guarded. “It’s a good project,” he said, which was not what he’d meant to say, and they both probably knew it….

PART 5: And he had sent them carefully and without identifying context to three people. One was a retired automotive engineer he’d met at a conference in…

PART 4: , which she told herself was a perfectly normal thing to do, and which she knew was not entirely about the coffee. The garage door…

PART 3: The 2:00 had stretched to 5 because Carla had called in sick, and Ronnie’s scheduling was always a fiction. And she came down Sycamore Drive…