Husband and Father, Partners in My Ruin

Ava Dean married Logan Reed and left school when she became pregnant. Her family had raised her as the favourite and she had no reason to look at the marriage twice. Bruce Dean, her father, had a daughter by another woman, and that girl needed cord blood to stay alive. The courtship, the wedding and the pregnancy had been arranged between Bruce and Logan to produce it. Ava found this out in the last days before she was due. She said nothing to either of them and left. The news that reached Logan and Bruce was that she had gone into the sea and drowned, which was what she had arranged for them to hear. The two of them went back over the years afterwards and worked out what they had done to her, and then started looking for her.