I looked back. Eva Notty was already wiping down the table, humming a tune I didn’t recognize.
Margaret’s tag hung from her briefcase. It read: “Debt. Seven figures. My father’s shame.” Sal’s was tied to his belt loop: “The left hook that killed a man in ’89.” The girl, No One, had hers pinned to her collar: “The baby I didn’t want.”
Most guests thought it was a charming pun. A cheeky name for a quaint seaside inn. They were wrong. The name was a warning.

