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Chapter 1

Celia

The call ca on a Thursday

Nothing bad happens at that time of day, and Thursday is just another day of the week That's what I thought, so I didn't worry and let it ring through to voicees of journal articles to read for my class at two in the afternoon and couldn't afford to waste any tih with the material so we could discuss, answer questions and ask them Not just any questions Smart questions I had to be in the top five percent of the class to keepand turned the page in the article

So far so good for another threeonceit hard to concentrate on the text in front offive tihed and turned another page Less than a nore the call any longer

I took the cell out ofand checked the caller ID

Massachusetts General ICU

Adrenaline jolted through me My mother and stepfather were out of town on one of those river cruises up the Danube, so it wasn't them

It could only be Graham

Graham must have been in an accident

I answered the phone,in my chest

"Hello?"

Sounds of people talking, ood Finally, someone came on the line

"Sorry," a fe to answer Is this Celia Franklin?"

"Yes, this is her"

"Your brother Graham is in ICU here at Mass General You should come down as soon as possible"