At the final inheritance trial, the elderly judge suddenly froze—he realized the woman shunned by everyone in court was the daughter he had abandoned 40 years ago. The probate court of Westchester County was a theater of quiet grief and loud avarice. Eleanor Vance felt like a solitary actor on a hostile stage, the collective gaze of her step-family pressing down on her like a physical weight. They sat beside their lawyer, a portrait of familial unity forged in greed, their whispers like the rust

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