Brother and sister

 

Hallie Twain had memorized the salient details of the extensive report on Truly Baker Devereaux, a compendium of knowledge prepared by an organization further under the radar than her own.

Truly considered the two other people she was raised with her siblings, but they were biologically her first cousins, each of the three of them the offspring of their grandparents’ wayward children and children-in-law.

The younger sister had graduated from university, a less prestigious program than Truly’s, and was working in her second year of the Space Corps, an exploratory branch of Elle’s government.

The younger brother had graduated a year early from high school the previous spring, then vanished. If Truly, her sister, or their grandparents knew where he had gone, then none of them was telling.

Hallie frowned upon loose ends. But she also liked to solve a mystery.