Chapter 1 - THE BRACELET
Use the supplied opening as the official Chapter 1.
It ends with Vance Sterling discovering that the daughter he buried eighteen months earlier may never have died at all.
His mother, Beatrice Sterling, admits she helped remove the baby from the hospital and place her under the control of Vance’s uncle, Silas.
Beatrice claims the child was a weakness.
Silas intends to use her as leverage.
Vance leaves the Sterling Estate with the quiet maid Claire and heads toward a remote farmhouse where Silas expects him to surrender control of the family empire.
By 3:15 a.m., the farmhouse is surrounded by panic.
Silas believes Vance has come for war.
But the person Silas has underestimated most is not Vance.
It is Claire.
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And the reason she has been sleeping inside the locked nursery is far more important than the hospital bracelet hidden beneath her pillow.
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