Stephanie Spent Nineteen Thousand Dollars on a Wedding and Changed Her Will

not ring, but the screen lit up with a text message from an unknown number.

I picked it up and read the brief line. It was an address for a small coffee shop three miles south of the city line, near the old rail yard.

The message ended with a single sentence. *Please come alone.*

I did not reply to the message, but I set the phone face down on the granite continue reading …