When the wealthy couple saw their newborn’s face, the mother gasped, “Take him away, he’s a monster.” They abandoned him at the hospital. A kind nurse raised him. Twenty years later, the couple desperately needed a rare surgery. The world-famous surgeon walked in, revealed his birthmark, and…

among the heirs and heiresses of Connecticut’s upper crust. I ate my lunch in the library, wore unbranded clothing, and spent every waking hour analyzing tissue regeneration matrices and pediatric surgical texts loaned to me by my mentor, Dr. Malcolm Mitchell, a retired surgeon who saw the fire in my eyes and decided to fan the flames.

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