In the three months since eight-year-old twins Emery and Fenn Lockwood have gone missing, no ransom calls have come in. No one has seen any evidence of the children since the night of their parents’ party.
—New York Times, September 12, 1990
New York TimesAnother shower. Sophie had taken one only a few hours ago, yet so much had happened since then. She looked a wreck. Soot blackened her nose, forehead, and neck, and her eyes were red from the smoke. She still wore her exercise clothes from tennis that morning. It marveled her that Emery had wanted to touch her, let alone kiss her. The man was unpredictable.
And hot. Burning hot and dangerous. She wanted him bad, so bad she had the shakes, like an addict during withdrawal, when he wasn’t nearby.
If Cody and Hans hadn’t come in…they mig
