At midnight, my four-year-old granddaughter stood sobbing on my doorstep. I lifted her into my arms. “Why are you here?” I asked. Between tears, she whispered, “Mom doesn’t need me anymore… they’re having a new baby.” In her tiny hands was a wrinkled document: Parental Rights Relinquishment. My heart pounded as I called my son. The truth he revealed was beyond anything I could imagine. – Page 29

woman who would simply cry and coddle her grandchild. She didn’t know that she had just handed a loaded, legally binding weapon to a shark.

And Kara had just made the final, catastrophic mistake of her life.

Chapter 3: Preparing the Iron Net

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