She kept trying to smile but failing miserably. “Oakley and I moved here after we got married. I was a child bride, only sixteen. I never understood why he chose this area to live. Especially since he planned to write books, and we could have lived anywhere. He was originally from London, and I harbored a faint hope we might settle there. But Cape Unity is where Oakley wanted to come. Said he enjoyed the peace and quiet, the lack of interruptions. For the first several months, it was pleasant. Then I had a miscarriage and discovered I couldn’t have any more children, which threw Oakley into a funk. Long story short, with the new book contract, things were looking up for the first time in, well, decades.”
“How long ago did he start working on this book?”
“Five years or so.”
“Did he send
