I immediately pulled out my phone. In the photo, my mother, Dahlia Green, stood beneath a brilliant blue sky with the crystal-clear sea behind her, beaming in a floral dress. She had sent the photo just ten minutes ago.An hour earlier, my husband, Sean Quimby, had called me. He sounded frantic and desperate, nothing like I'd ever heard from him before. "Wendy! Get to the abandoned factory in Efton! Dahlia's been abducted! They strapped a bomb to her!"I immediately told him Mom was overseas. There was no way she could be there.But he shouted into the phone, "I don't know why Dahlia came back! But the woman they've got tied up is definitely her! The ones who abducted her specifically demanded to see you!"So I rushed there like a madwoman, only to see my mother-in-law, Kate Irwin, blown to pieces.Now, flames shot in the sky before me, filling the air with the acrid stench of smoke and charred flesh.Just moments ago, a living, breathing person had stood in that inferno. That pe
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