Only A Ghost Could Save Me

From the back cover

When his wife Sienna lost her family and her fortune, Dean Harrison walked away. Each year he returned to her door: the first, holding their son Leo, he was paid fifty thousand dollars to get lost; the second, carrying a terminal cancer diagnosis, he was paid a hundred thousand and told to disappear forever. After that he vanished from the world, leaving Leo in a shelter and a trust funded with the money he had taken from Sienna.

Now a soul, Dean watches his four-year-old son dial his old phone, begging for food. The call reaches Sienna, who believes Dean is a gold-digger and that the child she bore was stillborn. She sends security to collect the boy, and Leo, who does not know she is his mother, is taken to her.

Sienna cannot see Dean standing before her, and he cannot stop her from turning Leo out onto the street. As she watches the starving child, a dirty wooden box slips from his hands, and something about it seems strangely familiar.