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She frowned slightly in concentration, but gave no suggestion that the names meant anything at all to her. Still, Joel noticed her tapping the business card against her other hand until she tucked it into the pocket of the windbreaker she was wearing. Was her anxiety level increasing? he wondered.

“Katrina was the only child of Spiro Kostakis,” he clarified. “George’s great-uncle, and patriarch of the Kostakis clan in Grosse Point. George said there’d been a granddaughter—Elena—who’d disappeared from the family home when she was only three. Spirited away, apparently,” Joel added, “by her father, one Eddie Hughes—Katrina’s husband and Elena’s father.”

At that, Allie’s head turned his way, her expression almost challenging him to continue. “So far I get no connection to me, other than the fact that I coincidentally resemble this woman—what was her name again?”

“Katrina Kostakis. Or Trina, as she was sometimes called.”

“Was?”

“She’s dead. Killed in a car crash twenty-six years ago.”

“And she is—was—supposed to be…”

“Your mother,” Joel said softly.