• Chapter 1

    • Scene 1

      The kitchen clock read 5:47 and Ella Hayes had been ready since five-fifteen.


      She stood at the sliding glass door that opened onto the back patio, watching the canal. The water was black and flat under a sky just beginning to lose its darkest shade, the stars above the mangroves fading one by one like lights being switched off in a distant building. The sailboat at the dock — Jim Kowalski's enormous white fifty-footer — shifted almost imperceptibly against its lines, and the soft knock of fiber...

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    • Scene 3

    • Scene 4

  • Chapter 2

    • Scene 5

    • Scene 6

    • Scene 7

  • Chapter 3

    • Scene 8

    • Scene 9

    • Scene 10

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