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Separated at birth, can the Malvado twins survive and thrive when one must overcome privilege and a guaranteed future and the other human trafficking and sexual slavery?Regina and Mark Malvado know they have a bonus child when the New York hospital sonogram tells them it's twins. But on the day they are born, one twin leaves her mother's arms and disappears. Maybe this makes them over protective of young Lukas. Not a single day goes by they don't look at every female child... hoping. Meanwhile the child that would have been Lissa Malvado is known only as Mary Christine and raised on a remote ranch half the continent away. Over the ensuing years, the character of each is tested in extreme ways, particularly after Mary Christine is sold to a rancher and Lukas finds new ways to disappoint his parents. The forces propelling the twins on their separate journeys are deflected by choices each makes driving them further apart and yet bringing them towards common ground.

Four mysteries, four impossible quests undertaken by four very different people at different stages of their lives. Can they find what they are looking for and find themselves in time?Keisha's grandmother mysteriously dies in the ER where she works as a nurse; Daniel's parents and sister disappeared twenty years ago and his grandfather tells him to leave it alone; Jock's five-year-old granddaughter has a convulsion when her arguing parents come to pick her up from his house; and Amytis' brilliant grandson vanishes on his way to work. Each sets off on a quest to solve their mystery not realizing they alone cannot put their lives back together. However, in their attempts to learn the truth, they find their worlds are not as they seem. The forces conspiring to change their reality intersect in unforeseen ways, making it only possible to solve their mysteries by helping the others solve theirs. In the process they find themselves and that time is not necessarily their friend.

When you live in a world apart what makes you happy may not be what makes others in that larger world out there happy, or does it?Jasmin Braveheart contemplates leaving for college just before being abducted from her cocooned home. When she awakens, it is into the rest of the world... the one where people wear masks to protect themselves from unseen disease and pollution. Where every day is a struggle to exist. The world that isn't mediated for her and presented on vast wall screens, sanitized, perfect in representation but missing so many aspects. In her journey through what for her is a shadow world, but is where nearly everyone else lives, she must overcome fear of the unknown and draw upon unrecognized strengths as she comes to understand the reality and special nature of her cocooned existence. Both the opportunities before her and the limitations of her own frames of reference. But then she is driven to what could be deadly extreme actions resulting in the terror of being pursued by desperate violent unseen forces that deliver her to certain death in a California wildfire.

Would you give up your perfect life, your friends and your lover to take on an impossible challenge from which you will likely never return, just because you have this inexplicable need to do so? Dr. Rose Ross is a successful Dallas clinical psychologist, helping clients grow beyond self-imposed limitations and working with the local police department profiling killers and delivering social histories for the court. She has what friends describe as the perfect life and loving relationships. But Rose has made a commitment to leave this all behind, just not until next year. She must manage expectations, feelings and unexpected events, which nearly take her life on more than one occasion. Will she even survive until her departure date? Can she leave those she loves and who love her behind for an unknown and unknowable new life? Can she leverage her perfection and force of will into a successful bold move for mankind's very survival?