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Milagros Meikle has lost her mother to cancer, though she knows that her mother had been lost for many years before leukemia made it official. But the last months of Eladia Meikle’s life would contain the happiest moments she had experienced in decades—because of Gabriel, a man nothing like her arrogant, subtly abusive husband who refused to grant her a divorce after her diagnosis, refused to free her at least in her own mind. Regretful and bitter on her mother’s behalf, Milagros tries her best not to dwell on the wrongness which had surrounded Eladia Meikle’s life—and death—like a force. But when a series of new and violent deaths implicate her or someone connected with her late mother, the end result is a startling realization that defies every possibility, where no single person anywhere can be blamed—only punished.