Talia Sullivan had a marriage that others envied — until a single phone call tore the illusion apart. Her husband, Adrian Holden, had long been carrying on with his "good brother" Finn Shaw, and Adrian's parents had conspired to keep it from her. Talia said nothing. She quietly laid out her plan. On the day of the Holden Ancestral Rite, surrounded by incense and smoke, she finally waited for the moment when the truth would be revealed.