The Trespasser

by Tana French

“Yeah. She said look what it does to you, falling in love. Just look. It means someone else has hold of your whole life. At any second, like that”—a snap of her fingers—“they could decide to change it into something else. You might never even know why. And you might never get it back, your life. They could just

walk out and take it with them, and it’s gone for good.”