Chapter 1
One thing I'd learned from my mother was that, if you don't have the truth on your side, then you can simply take a bucket of manure and keep throwing things until you find something that will stick. It should have come as no surprise when Eva sent a constable out into the Surat Basin to serve Adam with a summons, right in front of his men.
Adam came home from court that night wearing a grim expression. He shot me look that made me look over my shoulder.
Was he mad at me?
What did I do?
…other than unplugged the phone so Pippa wouldn't get upset by her mother's constant hang-up phone calls? Sheesh… He needed to come out of the last century and buy a phone that came with caller-ID.
"Rosie," he said stiffly.
"How was court?" I asked.
He glanced at his daughter, and then sho
