The dining room of Vance Manor was a mausoleum of old money and even older secrets. The crystal chandelier above the mahogany table cast a harsh, interrogation-room light over a…

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My mother held the microphone at my sister’s wedding like it was a prize she’d been waiting her whole life to claim. She smiled, tapped it lightly, and the room…