Katherine was killed in a hit and run crossing the street when Bailey (real name is Kristin) was a toddler. Research reveals that Katherine was married to an Ethan Young, which is Owen's real name. They end up at Katherine Smith's family bar, The Never Dry, where they meet her brother Charlie Smith. Tobias's help leads them to a yearbook where they find a photo of the woman Bailey remembers as her mother, Olivia, except her name is listed as Katherine Smith. Bailey remembers attending a wedding in Austin, and they remember the name of a Professor Tobias Cookman that Owen used to talk about, who turns out to be a UT Austin mathematics professor. In Part II, Hannah and Bailey head to Austin to try to understand Owen's connection to the city. And as Hannah recalls her conversations with Owen, it becomes clear that he seemed to have some connection to the city of Austin and Bailey vaguely recalls being there once when she was very young. However, Grady seems to be working separately from the FBI, and Hannah finds it odd that Grady is based out of the U.S. Marshall shows up at her door looking for Owen. She moved to the Bay Area to be with him and has tried unsuccessfully to form a relationship with Bailey.Īs Hannah tries to learn what has happened, Hannah contacts her ex fiancé Jake to serve as her attorney. In a series of flashbacks, we learn that Hannah and Owen met around two years ago through Avett who was a client of her interior design and woodturning business. Bailey, Owen's 16-year-old daughter and Hannah's stepdaughter, also finds a duffle bag filled with cash that Owen left in her school locker. The CEO, Avett, has been arrested, and other high-level employees such as Owen are expected to be indicted as well. Part I opens with Hannah learning that Owen, her husband, has left on the same day that the company he works for, The Shop, is being raided as part of an FBI and SEC investigation into fraud and embezzlement charges.

It's what Owen would have wanted, and it brings Hannah and Bailey closer. By the end, Hannah brokers a deal with Nicholas for her and Bailey to be safe from the syndicate, even if it means Owen can't be in their lives. As Hannah and Bailey investigate, they learn that Owen had a previous life he was running from (and he was worried the new scandal will result in his current identity being compromised), where Owen's father-in-law Nicholas had been a lawyer for a crime syndicate and where he and Bailey had different names and lived in Austin. The one-paragraph version: Hannah finds out one day that her husband Owen has run away after the company he works for has been indicted for various white collar crimes, leaving her alone with her teenage stepdaughter Bailey who dislikes her.

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