“We reveal ourselves in the stories we tell,” Winter said—and was then annoyed to find he had quoted Margaret Whitaker without thinking. The therapist was beginning to get under his skin. “I saw the book you wrote for the children in the school library. You must have already been making your plans when you wrote it. It was a story about a dead woman who had suffered terribly and yet remained a beautiful and loving spirit, haunting a tower. Travis’s sister, May, told me you and Travis used to come to this tower sometimes to be alone. I added the two facts together.”
