Chapter 1
Cassandra had been doing small jobs for six months now. She was trying to help her sister pay for any expenses that the family home might incur. Her father, Thomas Crowley, went missing for almost a year on a humanitarian trip to Colombia. He was probably kidn*pped by a group of extremist rebels, no one had ever tracked him down. As his body was never identified, his death could not be made official.
But for Cassandra, life went on. She dropped out of college, and she went to Colombia to help with the searches, but everything was in vain. She and her sister were left with uncertainties. They couldn’t’t grieve. The hope of seeing their father safe and sound was diminishing day by day. At 22, she found herself ripped apart from both parents. Her mother had died after giving bir
