"It hurt," Watts said. "Reconciling the truth with what I'd believed all those years. Especially since," he smiled wryly. "I had, more or less, built my identity- my career- on the assumption that she was lost and would want me to find her."

Steven had seen Watts get wrapped up in obsession when it came to his piano practice, but that was nothing compared to his early years on the Constabulary, as a constable and then newly minted detective.