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Mallory’s throat closed. Lucy. She remembered, in a way that felt less like memory and more like inheritance, the name on a scrap of her father’s handwriting: L. Finch—Lucy. There had been hints of another family, a secret life before her father had left town. A life Mallory had never been part of. Lucy. She remembered

They began to piece things together. The quarry sat on a web of property records—companies with names like Desert Horizon Holdings, P&R Management, shell corporations that paid little and protected a lot. In town, a pastor with hollow eyes spoke of deals struck during times when the city needed work and men needed wages. Mallory learned her father had once worked at a shuttered processing plant near the rail line, a place that smelled permanently of bleach and gasoline. He had left Barstow without explanation twenty years earlier.