Betrayed By Her Beloved

n Ironwood, a frozen hell disguised as a

y recognized, clinging to Marcus and

he recycled air inside felt foreig

was a crue

my husband and my son, t

" Marcus confessed,

od ran

life was no accident of negligence, but a calcul

a meticulously cons

s having an affair with my adoptive sist

aring the gown Marcus had com

ned my cherished journals for him,

a home, but a gilde

ivian as a family "ass

ithin me was extinguished, rep

ten years in a brutal Alaskan pris

an overwhelming sense o

ht I was s

were

r's cryptic words from years ago echoed:

ivist, a planner,

uld be thei

it would