Chapter 6

Rachel Kim replied seventeen minutes after I sent the email.

Don’t sign anything on Friday. Don’t tell your husband you’ve contacted an attorney. Bring me every document you have at nine tomorrow morning.

I arrived ten minutes early.

Rachel looked to be in her mid-forties and wore a charcoal suit.

She spoke quickly and didn’t begin by asking whether Daniel was having an affair or inviting me to explain fifteen years of marriage.

She turned to the signature page of the lake house loan application.

“The property is only in your name?”

“My mother left it to me. The deed…