"She gives him a stare that could nail a sign to a tree and his father had a label for her infamous stare. The hairy eyeball, that was what he called it. Edgar Allan Pogue has never figured out why a stare as scary as his mother's is called a hairy eyeball. Eyeballs do not have hair. He has never seen or heard of one that does and he would know. There isn't much he doesn't know." Chapter 1, pg. 16

"Even on her best days, Henri has to be the center of chaos and the creator of chaos, the star of her own crazy drama and for this reason alone most police and forensic psychologists would conclude that she faked her own attempted murder and staged the crime scene, that the attack never happened. But it did." Chapter 5, pg. 49

"'I told you I don't need you to come,'...