At 5:42 p.m., I found my husband in our $18,000 backyard pool with the neighbor who showed up every Tuesday pretending to borrow sugar

PART 1 By the time Marissa turned onto Ridge Hollow Lane that Thursday afternoon, her biggest concern was whether the avocados were ripe enough. The office had closed early after the company server crashed, so she stopped by the market on her way home. Caleb liked guacamole on Thursdays. It was such a small, ordinary…
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