Worth reading: Yes

Summary: Kate is sick. She's endured a life spent mostly in hospital fighting and then awaiting the return of leukemia. Kate was not expected to live past the age of 5. She is now 16.

Anna is 13 and isn't sick, but she is the reason Kate has been able to fight for so long. She has spent almost as much time in hospital as her sister. Anna was brought into the world to be the bone marrow match for Kate. She was conceived with that possibility in mind.

Anna has not been more that a step from her sisters side her entire life. Now Kate needs a kidney if she has any chance to survive her latest battle. Her chance of surviving is only slight and there's every chance she will not survive the next battle as her body continues to deteriorate due to intensive chemotherapy.

But the circumstances have changed. Anna's mother assumes the operation is a foregone conclusion. Anna has always been willing to help her sister in the past, but Anna's health could be seriously effected, both now and in the future.

And Anna has reservations. Reservations that will have dire consequences for the life of her sister.

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