She was preparing their home for charity. He had already rented another woman the storage unit.
Katherine Bowles knows how to make a house look gracious under pressure. For years, she has handled the donor lists, the fragile relatives, the polished rooms, and the husband who smiles while she does the work.
Then, while preparing paperwork for the Hollander Home Tour, Katherine finds a storage-unit invoice paid from their household account.
The unit is in Philip’s name.
The authorized user is Brenna Dacey.
The home-staging consultant who has been removing Katherine’s inherited furniture "for the tour."
Philip says it is practical. Brenna says the staging needed flexibility. But Katherine’s mother’s pieces are missing, the moving inventory does not match the story, and the charity preview is suddenly full of people who expect Katherine to stand beside her husband and make his version look respectable.
Katherine does not make a scene.
She starts a file.
Because the woman who kept every room in order also knows how to follow a receipt.
