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Chapters (87)
  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. START READING
  6. CHAPTER ONE
  7. CHAPTER TWO
  8. CHAPTER THREE
  9. CHAPTER FOUR
  10. CHAPTER FIVE
  11. CHAPTER SIX
  12. CHAPTER SEVEN
  13. CHAPTER EIGHT
  14. CHAPTER NINE
  15. CHAPTER TEN
  16. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  17. CHAPTER TWELVE
  18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  19. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  20. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  21. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  22. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  23. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  24. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  33. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  34. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  43. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  44. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  52. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  53. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  54. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  55. CHAPTER FIFTY
  56. CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE
  57. CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO
  58. CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
  59. CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR
  60. CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE
  61. CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX
  62. CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN
  63. CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT
  64. CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE
  65. CHAPTER SIXTY
  66. CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE
  67. CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO
  68. CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE
  69. CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR
  70. CHAPTER SIXTY-FIVE
  71. CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX
  72. CHAPTER SIXTY-SEVEN
  73. CHAPTER SIXTY-EIGHT
  74. CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
  75. CHAPTER SEVENTY
  76. CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
  77. CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWO
  78. CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREE
  79. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOUR
  80. CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE
  81. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SIX
  82. CHAPTER SEVENTY-SEVEN
  83. CHAPTER SEVENTY-EIGHT
  84. CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
  85. CHAPTER EIGHTY
  86. EPILOGUE
  87. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“This can’t be happening,” Kristen said as we picked up Connor on an arrest warrant for Sophie’s murder. “Not my husband. Not my Connor. He’d never hurt a fly.”

She stuck with him through a process that must have been excruciatingly humiliating for an officer of the court married to an accused killer. TV, newspaper, and online coverage rained like the worst Seattle storm in history. Later, Kristen added to the case against her husband by revealing her suspicions of an affair.

“I had no idea that he was seeing Sophie Warner,” she told TV reporter Linda London in an interview that aired before his plea deal, “but now it makes sense. It’s the reason we went to the cabin. I wanted to go somewhere else, but he was so insistent. I wonder if he was planning to meet up with her.”

As I sit across from him in that chilly prison interview room, I tell him I don’t know what to say to him. “Axel Bakker saw what he saw, Connor. You can’t dismiss his eyewitness account. A woman being abducted in broad daylight while her husband and daughter were offshore crabbing.”

“I know,” he says, “but he didn’t see me. I was wiped out in our cabin. That was supposed to be us out there crabbing. We had the pots in the trunk. But I got all messed up and ruined it.” He shook his head miserably. “Not that we would’ve been able to go anyway.”

“Why’s that?”

“Found out Sunday when we tried. Turns out the crab fishery was closed until June sometime. Big notice in all the little boats that go with the cabins.”

“But Adam Warner and his little girl went crabbing,” I say.

He just shrugs. “Outlaw crabbers,” he says. “Great way to get a massive fine. They take it seriously on the Sound.”

I nod, knowing that to be true. I picture Adam ignoring the sign in the boat, loading Aubrey and the crab pots in anyway—

“I need to leave,” I tell Connor.

“Are you going to help me after all?” he asks.

“I don’t know if I can,” I say, getting up and tapping the glass for the guard.

“Thanks,” he says. “Thanks for seeing me. I want you to know that if I ever get out of here, I’m going to fight Adam Warner for custody or visitation. Aubrey’s my daughter.”

“You don’t know that for sure,” I say.

“I do,” he says. “I knew Sophie better than anyone. She lied to me when she said she thought it could be Adam’s baby. I know that beyond a shadow of a doubt. When I looked into Aubrey’s eyes, it was my own that I saw.”

CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE

CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE

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