Hollow Bones - Jodi Picoult
I reach up and unravel my braid. When my hair is loose and whipping around my face, I take the red ribbon I ve woven through it and press it just beneath my mother s etched name, underlining. She was here.
She was mine.
When Molly Fitzgerald was two months old, her mother went to a morning appointment in downtown New York.
Like so many who left their homes on September 11th, 2001, Molly s mother never came home.
Now Molly saves lives for a living, running a department for when disasters strike.
Molly and her husband Jesse a police polygraph expert with his own fractured family have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world.
But then Molly s whole world is turned on its head. She s spent her life preparing for catastrophe. But nothing could prepare her when a disaster strikes too close to home.