The first scar was precise. That was what Eva Sterling noticed,...

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The first scar was precise. That was what Eva Sterling noticed, more than the pain, more than the fear: the precision with which her father-in-law worked.

Henry Sterling was a retired surgeon. Even at sixty-two, even with the arthritis that had twisted his right hand into a claw-like shape, he moved with the same clinical exactness he had brought to three decades of operating room work. The instrument he held was not a branding iron or a whip or any of the crude tools of domestic abuse Eva had read about in newspapers. It was a scalpel—sterile,...

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