Heartbeat

A half hour later Sam sat in a rented hotel room, every light on, back pressed against the headboard, knees to her chest. She had come here as quickly as she could, wanting and needing to be near people and the sounds of civilization.

She thought about what she had learned—It wasn't so long ago that Uncle Brewin, in his delirium, had told "Craig" he would meet him at "Sutter." Sam now knew that Sutter Cane Memorial was where she had been taken after her parents' accident; that it was the place she continued to have nightmares about… and Uncle Brewin, whom she had thought was just a "family friend," had been there. The same Uncle Brewin who had a mile-wide gap in his personal history.

And Paula, who had been Brewin's nurse, had apparently been using that position to keep an eye on Sam, under the orders of Kronin. Why? Why was Kronin so obsessed with her? How was Brewin involved? What had he been hiding from her all these years?