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Chapters (61)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  18. Thirteen
  19. Fourteen
  20. Fifteen
  21. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  22. Sixteen
  23. Seventeen
  24. Eighteen
  25. Nineteen
  26. Twenty
  27. Twenty-One
  28. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  29. Twenty-Two
  30. Twenty-Three
  31. Twenty-Four
  32. Twenty-Five
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. Twenty-Nine
  37. Thirty
  38. Thirty-One
  39. Thirty-Two
  40. Thirty-Three
  41. Thirty-Four
  42. From the Missing Journal of Candace Swain
  43. Thirty-Five
  44. Thirty-Six
  45. Thirty-Seven
  46. Thirty-Eight
  47. From the Journal of Candace Swain
  48. Thirty-Nine
  49. Forty
  50. Forty-One
  51. Forty-Two
  52. Forty-Three
  53. Forty-Four
  54. Forty-Five
  55. Forty-Six
  56. Forty-Seven
  57. Letter Found in the Journal of Candace Swain
  58. Forty-Eight
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. Booklist
  61. Excerpt

Lucas didn’t look happy. She was more optimistic. The wheels of justice moved slow, but they worked more often than not.

Still, Regan knew how he felt. So she said, “We have a podcast on Tuesday, and if Rachel Wagner is still walking free, we’re going to make her life a living hell.”

Forty

Rachel Wagner needed to know exactly what Lucas Vega knew. Steven had listened to the podcast last night and called her, told her to listen and share with him any insight she had.

She’d already listened to the damn thing and knew that Nicole Bergamo was going to cause her huge problems. If she told the police that Rachel had told her not to share the information about Candace and the truck, Steven would become suspicious. Rachel had been relieved that Nicole hadn’t shared her name on air—until Steven called her. He was obsessed with the podcast, even though he thought Lucas Vega was a novice. Even when Rachel had told him how much the podcast upset her girls, he still thought it was an interesting approach.

“It’s a cold case. I look at it from time to time, mostly sending notices to homeless shelters and hospitals looking for Abernathy. But maybe I need to be looking at the case in a different way.”

That was a problem. A huge problem. Abernathy had to be guilty in Steven’s mind, because that was the only way he wouldn’t look at other possibilities.

Rachel didn’t want to lose everything she had. How could she rebuild again? Rebuilding after everything that had happened in Tucson had been difficult and mentally exhausting. She didn’t want to go through that again.

Rachel waited until first Lucas, then his roommate, left their apartment. She’d parked down the street. His roommate had an overnight bag, and Lucas left with Regan Merritt.

Rachel did not like Regan. She was nosy and trouble, acting like some sort of investigator when she was nothing but a failed cop. Yet, Lucas couldn’t have gotten half this far with his stupid podcast without her. She was just as much to blame as Lucas if Rachel’s carefully built world disintegrated.

Rachel had dressed like a college student, had a jacket with a hoodie—just in case someone saw her, she didn’t want to be recognized. She easily opened the door—the lock was quite simple, and this wasn’t her first rodeo.

In his apartment, she went through Vega’s files. The more she read, the more upset she became. He had made the connection between Candace, Taylor, and Adele. He had a timeline on his wall, and he’d written that Candace had been at “Payson Mine” from Tuesday to Saturday.

How the hell did he figure it out?