My Own Mother Didn't Recognize Me Until I Was Dead

After a scandal-ridden actress vanishes, her forensic pathologist mother, Dr. Bernice Norris, is left searching. A huge reward is posted, but three years pass with no lead. Then the fugitive killer Bradley Whitney is captured, and his trial is broadcast live around the world.

On camera, Bradley claims he took one hundred and twenty lives, not one hundred and nineteen. The last, he says, was a disgraced celebrity carved up while still breathing — by her own mother. He names Dr. Bernice Norris. She denies it, insisting her daughter Carina Delgado is a beloved star. But Bradley produces a gold bracelet and a name no one has spoken in years: Rosemary Delgado.

As the courtroom turns to watch her mother, a silent presence drifts among them, unable to be heard or held, remembering the knife and the family that forgot her.