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Chapter 1: Welcome to hell
Chapter 2: Thanks, Gram
Chapter 3: Beignets and babes
Chapter 4: That color's good on you
Chapter 5: There's just something about New Orleans
Chapter 6: Better than bread pudding
Chapter 7: A proposition
Chapter 8: Advice and answers
Chapter 9: Dinner a deux
Chapter 10: The art of persuasion
Chapter 11: Breakfast briefing
Chapter 12: Unexpected adversary
Chapter 13: Welcome to Carruthers
Chapter 14: What a coincidence
Chapter 15: Home sweet home
Chapter 16: The past is painful
Chapter 17: Chocolate chip cookies and history
Chapter 18: Deepest secrets
Chapter 19: What I really didn't want to discuss
Chapter 20: Surprise
Chapter 21: Dulling the pain
Chapter 22: Influence
Chapter 23: Bad news
Chapter 24: Mission at last
Chapter 25: Interested
Chapter 26: Voices
Chapter 27: Savannah
Chapter 28: Blast from the past
Chapter 29: Here we go
Chapter 30: Well, this is awkward
Chapter 31: Not exactly paradise
Chapter 32: You ain't seen nothing yet
Chapter 33: I have a theory . . .
Chapter 34:
Chapter 35: Eavesdropping
Chapter 36: Vows
Chapter 37: Mallory Jones
Chapter 38: Despair
Chapter 39: Coming back
Chapter 40: Reclaiming life
Chapter 41: Exercising power
Chapter 42: Redemption
Chapter 43: Coming home . . . sort of
Chapter 44: Harper Creek
Chapter 45: Astral travel
Chapter 46: Making plans
Chapter 47: Rescue mission
Chapter 48: Volcano
Chapter 49: Getaway
Chapter 50: Perilous drive
Chapter 51: Checking out the cabin
Chapter 52: I don't even know your name
Chapter 53: My name is Nell
Chapter 54: From bad to worse
Chapter 55: Saving a life isn't for wimps
Chapter 56: Who said life was fair?
Chapter 57: Precious gift
Chapter 58: I feel the earth move
Chapter 59: Friends
Chapter 60: The worst experiment
Chapter 61: I'm sorry for almost killing you. Again.
Chapter 62: Stories
Chapter 63: Men leave
Chapter 64: Choices
Chapter 65: The best moment of my life
Chapter 66: Interlude
Chapter 67: Decision
Chapter 68: Just what we need now
Chapter 69: Warnings
Chapter 70: Information
Chapter 71: The last person I thought I'd see
Chapter 72: Hold on
Chapter 73: An eternity at least
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Chapter 11: Breakfast briefing
I woke up as the sun hit my face the next morning. For a few confused moments, I wasn't sure where I was. I'd been in more New Orleans hotel rooms in the past few months than I could remember, but I never stayed until morning. I left while it was still dark, and I always slept in my own bed.
But Jo...
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