Content Warning: This section of the guide contains descriptions of abduction, violence, and murder.

Anna wants to leave her life as Anna Williams-Bonner behind. She uses the credit card with this name to fund her transportation to several more cities for book events. Finally she travels to Georgia. In a motel, she cuts her hair and dons her wig. Then she travels to Athens, unsurprised that the town is largely unchanged. Moving through Athens, she remembers the year she spent here. After she killed Evan, she waited a few days before contacting Arthur Pickens for help selling the house. She hadn’t liked him and never expected to see him again after the house sold. Ultimately, she had to threaten to report him to the Georgia Bar Association if he didn’t expedite the sale. She still cannot understand how he would have connected her life as Anna to her past in Vermont but has some theories. Jake visited him shortly before his death, which might have piqued Pickens’s curiosity.

Anna discovers that Pickens lives in a gated community called Club Harmonie. She tracks his movements for a few days before finally traveling to his home one day while he is out.