The Harder Work
Rafael came home after twelve days in the hospital.
Not because he was fully recovered; he was not, and would not be for a long time, and everyone involved understood that. He came home because the hospital had done what it could do in the acute phase and the rest of the work was the kind that happ...
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Chapters
1. Petals and Blood
2. Petals n Blood II
3. Gilded Cage
4. Gilded Cage II
5. The Truth in Blood
6. Truth in Blood II
7. The Wall
8. Wolves at the Table
9. Blood Message
10. First Sight
11. First Sight II
12. Wrong Number
13. Wrong Number II
14. Guardian at the Gate
15. The Intruder
16. Ghosts in the Attic
17. Letters from the Dead
18. Breaking Point
19. Morning After
20. Fractures
21. The Weight of Mercy
22. War Council
23. The Night Before
24. The Choice
25. The Trap
26. Bloodlines
27. Morning After War
28. Leverage
29. The Gathering Storm
30. The Confrontation
31. Mercy and Judgment
32. Power Vacuum
33. The Letter
34. Identity Crisis
35. Blood Ties
36. The Gathering
37. The Truth Unravels
38. Distance
39. Breaking Point
40. Consequences
41. Captive Again
42. Proposal
43. The Ring
44. The Day Before
45. Vows
46. Honeymoon’s End
47. The Investigation
48. Contingency
49. From the Ashes
50. Interrogation
51. Checkmate
52. Consolidation
53. The Trap
54. Recovery
55. Home
56. The Weight of a Name
57. What We Don’t Say
58. Four Days
59. What Lucia Said
60. The Wrong Way To Find Out
61. What Volkov Knew
62. What Volkov Knew II
63. What Thomas Knew
64. What Thomas Knew II
65. The Things We Keep
66. Functional
67. What Diego Said in Court
68. What Diego Said in Court II
69. What Blood Costs
70. What Blood Costs II
71. The Woman in the File
72. The Woman in the File II
73. The First Message
74. The Cost of Family
75. The Woman at the Window
76. Sofia’s Last Secret
77. What Rafael Read
78. Bedrest
79. The Compliment
80. Sorina’s Ask
81. Parallel Lines
82. Hendricks
83. When We Move
84. When We Move II
85. Thirty Seconds
86. Ordinary
87. Early
88. Sofia
89. Go
90. Seventy-Two Hours
91. The Call
92. What She Didn’t Say
93. Two Bullets
94. I Know
95. Command
96. Arrested
97. The Right Call
98. The Harder Work
99. The Dead Man's Record
100. Surgical
101. A Desk of Her Own
102. For Sofia
103. Walking
104. Three Calls
105. Bloom & Thorn
106. Roots and Thorns
107. The Sound of Nothing
108. Cecilia
109. The Record
110. Looking At Him
111. The Envelope
112. Small Things
113. Four Words
114. The Name
115. Waiting
116. Not Clean
117. The Meeting
118. Boston
119. Kira
120. Three Years
121. Outside
122. Inside
123. The Proposal
124. Eight AM
125. The Table
126. One More Thing
127. The Name Sofia Left
128. Two O’Clock
129. The Photograph
130. The Lobby
131. The Lobby II
132. The Drive
133. The Drive II
134. Listening
135. Sorina’s File
136. Mara
137. Father
138. What Kira Kept
139. The Variable
140. Thomas
141. Closing the Door
142. What Kira’s Father Left
143. One Year
144. What the Checkup Was Really About
145. The Professor
146. The Meeting
147. Lucia’s Verdict
148. The Voice in Russian
149. The Letter, Reread
150. Anton
151. The Second Chair
152. What He Wants
153. Munich
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