His Queen of Chaos
Zariah’s POV
The bank was old-Atlanta money, marble and brass on Peachtree, the kind of institution that kept its vault behind three courtesies and a signature card. My name was on that card.
I hadn't known that either. I learned it standing at the manager's mahogany desk while a soft-spoken man in a gray suit pulled the access record for box eleven forty-seven and turned it toward me, and I saw my father's careful architect's printing, Marcus A. Brooks, beside a second line, a co-signatory, added years ago, in a signature I had never once written on this or any other bank document. Zariah D. Brooks. My own name, forged in my father's hand, made an executor I'd never agreed to be, given the