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“You’re holding a copy of The Idiot . Spine uncracked.” She finally turned, squinting up at him. “You’re also a terrible liar.”

Inside: a stack of letters, yellowed with age, tied with a faded blue ribbon. And on top, a photograph of a young woman who looked exactly like Mara. Searching for- Stepmom s Gardener Surprise in-A...

The search had begun as a whispered obsession. For three summers, Leo had watched from the shaded porch of his father’s estate as the gardener worked. But the gardener was no elderly man in overalls. She was Mara—his stepmother’s twenty-three-year-old assistant landscape architect—with sun-streaked hair tied in a loose knot, dirt smudged like war paint on her cheekbone, and arms that could lift a fifty-pound bag of topsoil without strain. “You’re holding a copy of The Idiot