Against the far wall of the cafeteria, at a table almost straight across from his family's usual corner, Edward was sitting all by himself—and, to Lily's horror, he was looking in her direction.

A miracle, she had called him. A miracle of engineering maybe, if it was a day for flattering himself, but that wasn't the kind of miracle she needed. All Nora knew was that her best friend had come back from the dead, and he would have to tell her the truth eventually. Nick the cop was nothing but a weathered headstone now. Nick the detective? He was nothing but a ghost.