The moment Emilia saw the black car speed away with Claire in the passenger seat, her heart raced with a new urgency. Mauve. She had been in that car. Whatever was happening, whatever secrets lay behind her parents' deaths, Mauve was tangled up in it—and somehow, it all tied back to Raymond.

Emilia made her way back to her parents' house and spent the rest of the day there. It felt like the more she looked, the less she saw. But she was determined to find answers.

Night fell, and she decided to spend the night at her parents'. She spent that night in their big bed, trying to immerse...