Chapter 1 - The Siren in the Driveway
The air in the dining room tasted of scalded garlic, iron, and terror.
The flashing crimson emergency lights mounted on top of the rescue unit parked in the gravel driveway tore through the lace curtains of the Sterling home, slicing across the antique mahogany sideboard, the spilled pitcher of ice water, and the pale, limp figure of six-year-old Lily.
"Vitals are plummeting! Pulse is thready, heart rate at one-sixty, stridor increasing," shouted the female paramedic, her gloved fingers pressing hard into the hollow of Lily’s neck. "Administering a second dose of epinephrine via
