Blood Revenge on New Year's Eve

Maria Garcia has given birth four times, each delivery by caesarean on New Year's Eve, and each infant died within hours. The household settled on an explanation early: she is a curse on the family, and by the fourth loss the whispers had hardened into an accusation that she killed her own children. Her husband repeats the accusation in public and comforts her in private. She spends years inside that arrangement, half believing it herself, until she wakes from a collapse with her head clear and starts going back over the four nights one at a time. The dates were not chance. The infants did not die of anything a doctor named. Someone in the house arranged each death, and the marriage that looked like devotion was cover for a trade that has been running for over a decade, with money moving through people who called themselves her family. She begins collecting proof quietly, letting them go on treating her as the broken woman they expect, while she works out who handled the babies, who paid, and who signed. The next New Year's Eve is the deadline she sets for herself.