The little girl hadn’t spoken since the night her mother was found on the kitchen floor! Then the court dog lowered his head-and she whispered one sentence toward the defense table…

at the defense table while the right one asked the questions.

Judge Whitcomb recessed the matter again. No one objected.

In the hallway, Ava found Lily sitting on the floor with Boone’s head in her lap, drawing on a yellow legal pad someone from the clerk’s office had given her. It was not a kitchen. There was no broken table, no red stripe, no figure continue reading …