Contents

Prologue

LEXI TEMPLETON’S HANDS TREMBLED AS SHE READ THE letter. Sitting…

One

DANNY CORRETTI LOOKED DOWN THROUGH THE branches at the swirling…

Two

IN THE MATERNITY UNIT AT NEW YORK’S MOUNT SINAI Medical Center,…

Three

ROBBIE TEMPLETON FELT A FAMILIAR, CHURNING FEELING in the pit…

Four

THE GIRL WAS A REDHEAD. SHE HAD HUGE BREASTS THAT…

Five

MAX WEBSTER TOOK THE SHINY RED PACKAGE FROM HIS mother…

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LIONEL NEUMAN LOOKED AT THE YOUNG MAN SITTING OPPOSITE him…

Seven

LEXI TEMPLETON WAS NOT LIKE OTHER LITTLE GIRLS.

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THE FIRST THING SHE WAS AWARE OF WAS DARKNESS.

Nine

HE WAS THE MOST FAMOUS BARRISTER IN LONDON.

Ten

PETER TEMPLETON SAT IN THE PRIVATE WAITING ROOM AT Mount…

Eleven

GABE MCGREGOR HAD TOLD HIS MOTHER HE COULD TAKE care…

Twelve

“BUT WHY DO WE HAVE TO GO?” MAX WEBSTER SWUNG…

Thirteen

SOUTH AFRICA WAS BEAUTIFUL.

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PAOLO COZMICI BARKED IRRITABLY AT HIS BOYFRIEND: “SO? Are you…

Fifteen

GABE MCGREGOR STEPPED OUT OF THE GATES OF WORMWOOD Scrubs…

Sixteen

LEXI LAY SPRAWLED OUT ON THE BLUE-AND-WHITE-STRIPED Ralph Lauren couch…

Seventeen

A CHANCE MEETING IN THE PRISON LIBRARY CHANGED Gabe McGregor’s…

Eighteen

AUGUST SANDFORD GRIPPED THE SIDES OF HIS CHAIR AND ground…

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CAPE TOWN WAS UTTERLY UNLIKE ANYTHING GABE MCGREGOR had ever…

Twenty

THE DAWN OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM USHERED IN A PERIOD…

Twenty-One

IT SEEMED TO LEXI THAT THE NEXT YEAR WENT BY…

Twenty-Two

PAOLO COZMICI LOOKED AT THE EXQUISITELY DECORATED Bel Air drawing…

Twenty-Three

MAX WEBSTER WAS ON HIS HONEYMOON.

Twenty-Four

THE BRUTAL SLAYING OF GABRIEL MCGREGOR’S WIFE AND children was…

Twenty-Five

GABE, LEXI AND ROBBIE WERE IN LEXI’S NEW YORK APARTMENT, playing…

Twenty-Six

FELICITY TENNANT WAS DEPRESSED. SHUFFLING OUT TO the mailbox in…

Twenty-Seven

LEXI SAT ALONE IN THE DOCTOR’S WAITING ROOM, GLANCING impatiently…

Twenty-Eight

LEXI TEMPLETON’S WEDDING TO GABRIEL MCGREGOR WAS the society event…

Twenty-Nine

LEXI WATCHED THE TWO PLAINCLOTHES POLICEMEN WALK up the path…

Thirty

GABE READ THE LETTER IN SILENCE. THEN HE READ IT…

Thirty-One

GRETA, MAXINE MCGREGOR’S NANNY, HAD MISSED THE drama of her…

Thirty-Two

“CAN I GET YOU ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE LAND, madam?

Thirty-Three

THE BLOND WOMAN WITH THE BIG SUNGLASSES FELT THE rumble…

Thirty-Four

THE PASSENGERS OF US AIR FLIGHT 28 STREAMED INTO THE…

Thirty-Five

SUNLIGHT FLOODED THE WHITEWASHED ROOM. GABE opened his eyes and…