The cold stone walls of the vault room seemed to close in around Clara as she stared down at the paper in her hands. The words printed on the page were clear, sharp, and brutal. A signed medical agreement between Marcus Vance and a corrupt clinic director dated six months after the official date of her mother's car accident.

Clara traced her trembling fingers over the ink lines. Her mother Eleanor Vance had not died in that fiery car crash at all. Marcus had faked the wreckage, bribed the city coroner, and hidden her away in a secret private medical facility under a fake name to keep her completely isolated...