ISBN: 9780373275816

She knew better. Of all people, Dr. Marja Pulaski knew to be alert when she was sitting behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. It really didn't matter that the vehicle in question, a car… More...

She knew better. Of all people, Dr. Marja Pulaski knew to be alert when she was sitting behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. It really didn't matter that the vehicle in question, a car she shared with her sister, Tania, was going at a pace that, in comparison, would have made the tortoise of "the Tortoise and the Hare" fame change his name to Lightning. A car was a dangerous weapon, an accident waiting to happen unless it was parked in a garage. Hadn't she seen more than her share of auto accident victims in the E.R.? Marja was well versed in the kind of damage just the barest distraction could render. Her excuse, that she'd just come off a grueling double shift at Patience Memorial Hospital, wouldn't have held water with her if someone else had offered it. And everyone knew that the cheerful, outgoing Dr. Marja Pulaski, the youngest of the five Pulaski physicians, was harder on herself than she was on anyone else. Other than being somewhat vulnerable and all too human, there was no real reason for Marja to have glanced over at the radio just as one of her favorite songs came on. Looking at the radio hadn't made the volume louder, or crisper. And it certainly wouldn't restart the song. It was just an automatic reflex on her part. The song had been hers and Jack's. Before Jack had decided that he was just too young to settle down, especially with a woman who'd let him know that, although she loved him, she wasn't going to make him the center of her universe. Trouble was, for a while, Jack had been the center of her universeuntil she'd forced herself to take stock of the situation and pull back. Pull back and refocus. Being a doctor was not something she knew she could take lightly, especially not after all the effort that had been put forth to get her to that point. Her parents were naturalized citizens. Both had risked their lives to come to the United States from their native country of Poland. At the time, it was still bowed beneath communist domination. They'd come so that their future children could grow up free to be whatever they wanted to be. Once those children began comingfive girls in allthe goal of having them all become doctors had somehow materialized. Her father, Josef, and her mother, Magda, worked hard to put their firstborn through medical school. Once Sasha graduated, any money she could spare went toward helping Natalya become a doctor. Natalya, in turn, helped Kady, who then helped Tania. And it all culminated in everyone working together so that she, Marja, could follow in the firm footsteps that her sisters had laid down before her. She didn't do it because this was the way things were, she did it because, like her sisters before her, she really wanted to become a physician. Looking back, Marja couldn't remember a day when she hadn't wanted to be a doctor. But there were moments, like tonight, that got the better of her. She'd spent her time trying to put together the broken pieces of two yo Fiction Fiction eBook, Silhouette<