The Scandal As scandalous as it might sound, I, Jacqueline Kaplan Spadros — a woman still married to the Spadros Family Heir — worked as a private investigator. I’d left Tony over a year ago. My husband refused to divorce me; I refused to return home. For the past six months, I’d been trying to get a case so I’d have money to pay my bills. But I cared about more than paying bills. I had to find Joseph Kerr. I hadn’t seen him since the night Tony caught us together in my study. I didn’t know whether Joe was alive or dead. He’d still been walking with a cane from his terrible accident a few months earlier. Tony had posted a monstrous reward for his capture, so the entire city searched for him, including the Four Families. How could he possibly have survived? But my best friend Jonathan