PART 10: Mara had walked through its lobby more than a thousand times. She had her badge out before the door opened. The lobby guard’s eyes came…

PART 9: No performance in it, just the thing itself. Several seconds passed between them. I kept going back to my father, she said. Her voice was…

PART 8: “I saw you in the garden.” His voice came down between them, quiet. “The way you were standing, the way you kept your face. Mara…

PART 7: The knock came before she was ready for the morning. Mara had been awake for some time already, lying in the unfamiliar quiet of the…

PART 6: She could feel it from here without looking. She reached for it. 12 missed calls, eight messages, all from her father. The screen cycled past…

PART 5: That was when Mara saw it, the inside of his left forearm, a scar, pale and long healed, running from below the elbow toward the…

PART 4: Her eyes went to the screens first. Three of them above the desk cycling through black and white feeds of the property. Front gate, marble…

PART 3: He had not raised his voice. He never had to. Preston recovered first the way he always did with a laugh that was more reflex…