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Chapters (49)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. Contents
  5. CHAPTER ONE
  6. CHAPTER TWO
  7. CHAPTER THREE
  8. CHAPTER FOUR
  9. CHAPTER FIVE
  10. CHAPTER SIX
  11. CHAPTER SEVEN
  12. CHAPTER EIGHT
  13. CHAPTER NINE
  14. CHAPTER TEN
  15. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  16. CHAPTER TWELVE
  17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  23. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  48. Author’s Note and Acknowledgments
  49. About the Author

“I will,” Eve said, but she didn’t go to bed.

She spent another hour putting pins in the map and then, after accidentally sticking herself in the finger with a pushpin, she decided to take a break and approach her investigation from another angle.

Eve opened up her laptop on the coffee table, logged on to Amazon, and rented the original Planet of the Apes, hoping it might give her some insights into Coyle. She sat back on the couch and watched as astronaut Charlton Heston crashed on an alien planet where apes were the superior species and humans were inferior.

It was a heavy-handed allegorical tale, and although the apes were more advanced than man, they didn’t have any technology and lived in earthen huts in a time period similar to the Old West.

She fell asleep and dreamed of apes on horseback rampaging through the women’s department of Neiman Marcus.

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

The sound of the doorbell ringing, and a fist pounding on the door, woke Eve up, dazed and disoriented.

“Hold on, Mom, I’m coming.” Eve got up from the couch, stretched her stiff back, and shuffled to the door. But it wasn’t her mom standing outside, it was Duncan Pavone holding a box of donuts, a sight that Eve found very confusing, since she’d just been talking to her mom on the phone.

She looked at her hand and realized she wasn’t holding a phone and hadn’t been talking to anyone. The fog in her head began to clear. Her mom had been banging on the door yesterday. This was a new day, a new rude awakening.

“Sorry to make such a racket, but you didn’t answer the phone.” Duncan invited himself in and gave her the once-over as she closed the door. “Isn’t that what you wore yesterday?”

Eve went back to the couch to look for her phone. “What’s the big emergency?”

“Coyle’s lawyer called. They want to talk to us.”

She found her phone on the coffee table. The phone’s battery was dead. “What do they want to talk about?”

“Maybe he wants to confess. Or maybe he still wants that selfie with you.” Duncan went to the map on the wall, which was covered with pushpins. “What is this?”