« I’ve won. »
I tightened my embrace around my four-year-old granddaughter, Lily, and stared at the polished walnut coffin surrounded by white roses.
Inside lay my only daughter, Claire.
She was just thirty-two.
Officially, she had died in a single-car accident on a rain-soaked road.
The police described it as a tragic accident.
But my instincts told me someone had carefully arranged her ending.
Standing beside the coffin, Claire’s husband, Daniel Mercer, performed the role of a grieving widower flawlessly.