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Chapters (81)
  1. Cover
  2. Back Cover Text
  3. Praise
  4. Booklist
  5. Dedication
  6. About the Author
  7. Chapter One
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Chapter Three
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. Chapter Thirteen
  20. Chapter Fourteen
  21. Chapter Fifteen
  22. Chapter Sixteen
  23. Chapter Seventeen
  24. Chapter Eighteen
  25. Chapter Nineteen
  26. Chapter Twenty
  27. Chapter Twenty-One
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five
  32. Chapter Twenty-Six
  33. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  34. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  35. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  36. Chapter Thirty
  37. Chapter Thirty-One
  38. Chapter Thirty-Two
  39. Chapter Thirty-Three
  40. Chapter Thirty-Four
  41. Chapter Thirty-Five
  42. Chapter Thirty-Six
  43. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  44. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  45. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  46. Chapter Forty
  47. Chapter Forty-One
  48. Chapter Forty-Two
  49. Chapter Forty-Three
  50. Chapter Forty-Four
  51. Chapter Forty-Five
  52. Chapter Forty-Six
  53. Chapter Forty-Seven
  54. Chapter Forty-Eight
  55. Chapter Forty-Nine
  56. Chapter Fifty
  57. Chapter Fifty-One
  58. Chapter Fifty-Two
  59. Chapter Fifty-Three
  60. Chapter Fifty-Four
  61. Chapter Fifty-Five
  62. Chapter Fifty-Six
  63. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  64. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  65. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  66. Chapter Sixty
  67. Chapter Sixty-One
  68. Chapter Sixty-Two
  69. Chapter Sixty-Three
  70. Chapter Sixty-Four
  71. Chapter Sixty-Five
  72. Chapter Sixty-Six
  73. Chapter Sixty-Seven
  74. Chapter Sixty-Eight
  75. Chapter Sixty-Nine
  76. Chapter Seventy
  77. Chapter Seventy-One
  78. Chapter Seventy-Two
  79. Chapter Seventy-Three
  80. Chapter Seventy-Four
  81. Acknowledgments

To say Robin resented the book was too strong—he still felt a certain pride for writing it—but he didn’t ever want to look at it. It would always be a physical representation of pain, his pain, the pain of—

That familiar sound. The buzzing. His phone again. He looked at it to see the familiar UNKNOWN NUMBER. What was this—the third time? If it was his sister, she wouldn’t be ringing without cause—she knew he was working. And if it wasn’t Emma, then someone really wanted to get hold of him. He let the phone buzz a few more times, looked around to see that the store was still quiet and picked up.

“Hello,” he said, as soon as the phone got to his ear.

He expected Emma to answer him, but instead a harsh robotic female voice crackled into life. “You are receiving a prepaid telephone call from—” a young man’s voice cut in “—Matthew—” before returning to the robot “—a resident of Her Majesty’s Prison New Hall. If you are on a mobile device, there may still be charges associated with accepting this call. In accepting this call, you are accepting that this call will be monitored and may be recorded. If you accept these terms, please press 1.”

Robin’s mind scattered in many directions. Someone—some “Matthew”—calling him from a prison? He didn’t know anyone in prison—hadn’t ever known anyone who had gone to prison. Hell, he hadn’t even known anyone who had worked in one.

His first thought was that it was a mistake. But then he remembered this person had rung him three times, one after the other. And by the sound of the robot, he had paid for it. Whoever this Matthew was, he really wanted to talk to him. But then, maybe poor Matthew had just got the number wrong?

The robot lady started up again. “You are receiving a prepaid—” but Robin cut her off by pressing 1. And he waited.

Any pretense that this was a mistake was shattered when the same small voice on the other end said, “Is this Mr. Ferringham? Mr. Robin Ferringham?”

Robin looked around suddenly, in shock, as though he might catch the perpetrator of this weird call in his sight line. But no—the store was almost empty as before, and of course no one was watching him.