After three years in prison, I returned home hoping for nothing more than to hug my father, but my stepmother opened the door and said, “He d!ed a year ago. This house is mine now.”

these ideas, but we should discuss this as a family.”

“Families don’t fabricate evidence to send an innocent man to prison.”

Silence.

Then her voice changed.

“You’re still an ex-convict. Do you really think a judge is going to believe you over me?”

I looked at the USB drive sitting on the table.

“He doesn’t have to believe me. He only has to listen to my father.”

I hung up.

The legal process lasted eight months.

Ian cracked first.

When prosecutors presented the bank transfers, the messages with the accountant,