My Father's Journal

Months after the funeral, Emily Carlton finds a key engraved with her name and a leather journal her father never meant anyone else to open. The official story was neat: a heart attack on a jog, a closed casket, move along. The pages are not neat. They hold a marriage under pressure, a friendship that once felt like legend, and a father's private inventory of the daughter he was trying to protect.

Reading him, Emily begins to hope he did not die so much as vanish—that going dark was another ...