They Called the Police on the Owner—So I Let the Law Answer a Week Later”

Clarity.

I opened my laptop and started making calls.

The first one was to my attorney, Daniel Price. I’d hired him two years earlier when I bought the Lake Geneva house and needed help with the closing documents.

He picked up on the second ring.

“Harper? Everything okay?”

I laughed quietly.

“Not exactly.”

I explained everything—from the party to the police to my own mother pretending not to know who I was.