On a warm afternoon, with the sun low over the Pacific, the Puerto Vallarta boardwalk teemed with life. Children laughed as they ran barefoot along the boardwalk. Music floated in the air. Tourists strolled along, oblivious to the quiet stories unfolding around them.
For Elena, that place would never be ordinary again.
Eight years earlier, it was there that her world shattered. Her only daughter, Sofia, had vanished in an instant. Ten years old. Bright eyes. Dressed in an embroidered yellow dress, her hair neatly braided. One second she was there, the next, she was gone.
Time did not soften that memory. It sharpened it.
The Day Everything Changed.
