Chapter 5

The name on the back of the photograph was Theo's mother.

Wren sat at her kitchen table, the old photograph flat in front of her, her father's handwriting clean and deliberate. The date was twenty-two years ago. The name was Celia.

She had never heard that name before.

She had asked her father, once, about Theo's parents. He'd told her that Theo's mother was a woman named Celia, that she'd died shortly after giving birth, and that Theo's father — her brother, Daniel — had brought the child home alone. Daniel had died six months later in a car accident, and Wren had taken Theo in without a second thought. She was his aunt. He was family. That was all she needed to know.