A Love 32 Years Apart

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Jessica Tillman married Clarence, a businessman thirty-two years her senior, for his money. When the divorce is finalised, he signs everything over to her — his estates, shares and savings — and three days later his body washes ashore on the east coast. The police call it suicide, or perhaps abetting: she was the last person he contacted, and the night before his death he watched her party with twenty-five men at her manor.

Detectives Greg Weeks and Caleb Zimmers press her on the settlement, the out-of-court divorce and the call she will not explain. Jessica insists the cheater gave the betrayed everything he had, yet she cannot say why a man who gave away his fortune walked into the deep zone without safety gear.

Back home, blood from a broken wedding photo smears Clarence's face, and the bloated corpse she saw at the station replaces the sharp, dark-haired man she met at eighteen, when he bought out a bar's liquor and offered her fifteen million a year to marry him.