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  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

Everything I say now is a log on the fire. I’m going for a bonfire. I’m going for the biggest blaze I’ve ever seen.

“Connor is a murderer,” he says. “And a liar.”

“I don’t think so.” Before that moment I might have added, And I’m a pretty good judge of who is truthful and who isn’t. “I know you killed Sophie,” I say.

He looks at me like I’m crazy. But I know I’m not.

“I was in the boat,” he says. “Axel Bakker saw me. You know that, Lee.”

The eyewitness is trotted out once more. I feel so stupid about that now. Mr. Bakker saw something, all right. But not what Adam had said.

“You counted on him,” I tell him. “But Adam, I know better. I found the hat and the blood under the cabin. I know that you knew about the passageway because the night I stayed at the cabin you told me about the history.”

“Oh, Lee,” he says, moving closer. “You were drunk that night at the cabin.”

He’s a stranger. I know that now.

“I was probably drugged,” I say, holding my arm out to keep him from moving any closer. I feel my gun against my rib cage. I have seldom had the need to draw it, but now it dawns on me that it might come to that. “Did you drug me?”

He shakes his head. “I’d never do anything like that, Lee. Come on. You know me.”

I wish I did.

“I don’t, Adam,” I finally say. “I never did. Whatever you did for me when I was a kid was appreciated, but who you are today has nothing to do with who I thought you were.”

If this affects him in the least, he’s not showing it. He’s just flatly staring at me.

“Kristen’s getting a divorce,” I say.

“What’s the big deal about that?”

“You know, Adam. I know.”

“I really don’t,” he says. “Not for sure.”

I give it a go. I bluff.

“I know you’re seeing her,” I say.

“So we got a little close.”

I suck in some air. I hate confronting a liar. Like Adam.

My Adam.

“You’ve been having an affair with her all along,” I say. “Haven’t you?”

He suppresses a laugh with a tight smirk.

But I see it. I see it all.

“You couldn’t be more wrong,” Adam says.

CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE

CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVE

KRISTEN