Days of driving had made the steady roll of the tires and the pulse of the automobile against the earth a comfortable background to the tumult in Elijah’s head.

He held the steering wheel with both hands, his fingers stiffened from the knots of anxiousness while driving on the country roads,which contain lots of curves.

The villas gazed through the huge windows opened on the upstate of the town, town, painted green to the horizon, but Elijah was not charmed by the view.

All he could think about was the task that was to be done——a job that he had been fearing since the day they knew Amelia was gone....