Chapter 1: The Yellow Dress and the Deep End The luxurious courtyard of the Azure Grand Hotel echoed with the gentle, sophisticated hum of a hired string quartet and the clinking of expensive crystal. It was a suffocatingly opulent environment, built entirely on the illusion of aristocratic grace. It smelled heavily of chlorine, expensive sunblock, … Continue reading During our family’s Easter brunch at a luxury hotel, my sister shoved my 5-year-old daughter into the swimming pool