For the time being, Cassie and Mom were staying at the farmhouse where Tobias and his new wife Carolyn lived, along with Carolyn’s much younger half-sister, Sarah. The house was a kind of central meeting place for the Knight family. Aiden stayed there when he was visiting from college. All the family barbecues were held at the farmhouse. It had plenty of extra space, including the attic room where Cassie was staying.
Mom had the best guest room, with its own bathroom and a little back porch that looked out on the rear of the property, where a scrubby lawn gave way to birch woods, and the foothills of Jupiter Point rose in the distance. She claimed to love it, but Cassie could tell that being surrounded by family made her anxious.
After all this time, she was very attuned to her mother’s
