Lifelines Kate's Story Author:Vanessa Grant Kate Taylor hasn?t had a good night?s sleep since her husband David died. It doesn?t help that David?s dog, Socrates, watches her constantly as if he expects her to bring his master back; that her personal life is a series of telephone conversations with her evasive adult daughter and her demanding mother; that working as a family counselor she ... more »regularly faces a client named Rachel, a narcissistic woman who evokes Kate?s most painful memories.
Kate is exhausted: tired of coping, tired of listening, tired of life. Then one night on an icy road, she goes into a treacherous skid. A razor?s edge from death, she realizes she wants to live.
She makes plans. She sets goals. She takes a lover. She copes with her daughter?s newest crisis and her mother?s financial foolishness. Then Kate discovers something about Rachel that throws her into an ethical nightmare.