My daughter vanished after a fishing trip with her father—one year later, what I discovered inside his tackle box made me go completely still.

beside the tackle box.

“This was hidden under the panel?”

“Sophie might still be alive.”

“Yes.”

“And Mark kept this box for the past year?”

“Yes. I’d never looked inside until now.”

The front door opened before he could ask anything else.

Mark walked in with his lunch bag.

He saw the officers, then the tackle box.

“No,” he whispered.

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