During the devastating earthquake, I was trapped under heavy rubble with my burning-fever son. When my husband finally reached us, he ignored our cries and carried his secretary-who only had a sprained ankle-into the first ambulance. As I wept in despair, a military helicopter landed right above us, and my billionaire father stepped out…

but of a profound, hard-won peace.

Chapter 5: Foundation

Exactly one year to the day after the earth fractured and tried to bury us, the sky above the city was a brilliant, uninterrupted blue.

I stood on the manicured lawn of a sprawling, state-of-the-art medical campus, holding tightly to Noah’s small, warm hand. The boy beside me was no longer pale continue reading …