Chapter 6
PORTLAND, OREGON
PRESENT DAY
Aria made the mistake of watching the morning news. The lead story was about a military transport that had crashed just outside of Joint Air Base Lewis-McChord, killing all thirty-one American service members on board. The flag draped coffins on her television screen had instantly taken Aria back to that terrible day ten years ago when she had buried Nicholas Williams. That day had changed the very course of her life in so many ways. Thoughts of how her life had changed and what lay before her filled her mind during her morning run.
She jogged up the street to her little bungalow nestled in the trees just a block away from the Willamette River. She always felt a sense of calm and relief when she saw her home. The stress of work, the demands and pr
