A month and a half ago, he and his wife Sara went to San Diego for a long weekend. On their last day, they decided to visit Tijuana. He says they had a wonderful time, but as they were headed back for the border, Sara realized she’d lost her passport and didn’t have any other ID. Alan crossed the border alone to get her driver’s license out of her luggage so they could get her a temporary passport, but when he got to the car, her things weren’t there. Only a note telling him she was gone.”

“Oh, that’s horrible,” Harp said.

“I’m sorry for your client, Callie, but people leave marriages all the time,” Logan said.

Harp shot him a look. “Logan, where’s your compassion?”

“I have compassion, Dad. But if this woman left, she must have had her reasons.”

“I’m not finished,” Callie said. “They went to San Diego because they were celebrating.”

“Wedding anniversary?” Harp asked.

Callie shook her head. “At the time, their first anniversary was still a month away. Sara came into the marriage with a daughter. Emily is two now. What Sara and Alan were celebrating was that his adoption of Emily had been finalized the week before.”

“She didn’t take the girl with her, did she?” Logan said.

“No, she didn’t.”

Logan shrugged. “I’m still not sure what I can-”

“Naturally, Alan was distraught,” Callie said, cutting him off. “He couldn’t understand why she’d left. By his account and others I’ve interviewed, they had a great marriage. He came to me because he wanted to find her, not to bring her back if she didn’t want to come back, but to find out why she left. I was thinking it was going to be mostly a divorce case. We have other lawyers in the firm who handle those, but since Alan was one of my personal business clients, I agreed to help track Sara down. I did the obvious thing-hired a detective to look into it.”

“So what did the detective find out?” Harp asked.