In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.
Tess Gerritsen
Related Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adop... CHARLES BASS In order to gain their freedom, survivors may have to give up almost everything else. Battered women... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families i... JIM WALLIS There are no winners, only survivors. FRANK GIFFORD We are the last generation that has these survivors. They are leaving us by the second. It is extrem... LISA MENDLER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... 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Survivors are getting older and starting to talk. Grandchil... STEVEN VITTO What it takes just to earn a living - working two or three jobs - is driving a wedge in families tha... CRAIG T. NELSON All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formati... QUENTIN BRYCE Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unha... ELIZABETH WURTZEL In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are... EDWARD ZWICK LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolutio... A.E. SAMAAN Most of our informants [incest survivors] remembered their mothers as weak and powerless, finding th... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN They're all cousins. So, we have three different families that are having to deal with such a tragic... 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DONALD TRUMP Sometimes, the only people that the parent of other murdered children can talk to are other parents ... HELEN HUBBARD Building survivors overall had high levels of respiratory symptoms and high levels of mental health ... DR. LORNA THORPE Even though I need only two or three hours' sleep a night, there are never enough hours in the d... CELIA HAMMOND 'Superman' has always been about Lois Lane, Superman and Clark Kent and this love triangle b... BRYAN SINGER We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families. HANNA ROSIN People live in their homes. People are still buying. Families are still growing. WAYNE NORRIS The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. T... ELLEN TAUSCHER Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instea... DAN BUETTNER Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Re... HOPE JAHREN When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. GEORGE SANTAYANA They are in a serious condition. Their families are very concerned, and we are keeping them closely ... GANESH SUNTHARALINGAM Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, ther... DAVE MASON The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair a... ARNOLD SCHOPENHAUER These people are so desperate to get health insurance for their families that they are very easily d... CINDY EHNES Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class familie... CHUCK SCHUMER So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It... BLAKE ANDERSON Just to make it clear, I only spoke once and then I spoke again three months later. ALEX RODRIGUEZ I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest famil... GARRETT DILLAHUNT Survivors' accounts reveal activities which are not only criminal but deliberately and brutally sadi... SUSAN C. VAN BENSCHOTEN In February 1932, the 'Times' published an account of community resistance to the eviction o... MATTHEW DESMOND That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I... CHARLES DICKENS Hunger has no guidelines on the Peninsula. These people are working for the same wages, fighting to ... LORETTA JONES Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of... JOHN RUSKIN These signs are worth their weight in gold. Violence has decreased and the ducks are at peace once a... ERMINE ROWE Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not. ELIE WIESEL There are only three elections, and they are obviously in very different parts of the state. But we,... JACK CARDETTI You are more focus when you confront. SUNDAY ADELAJA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men & women agree, it is only in their conclusions; ... GEORGE SANTAYANA Most of the World War II veterans are in their 80s now, and many are dying. Their families are putti... GARY MCMASTER We are evaluating the feasibility of allowing residents to return to their respective cities to surv... DICK NUGENT There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden... EZRA TAFT BENSON Once again, I thank The Ledger's readers for their growing generosity every year. Because of that ge... SKIP PEREZ I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking t... BEN STEIN Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists com... A.E. SAMAAN It was a completely different time for me. Now, the children are all grown ... They are all starting... MICHAEL WALKER financial assets decline only gradually when households are in their retirement years. JAMES POTERBA In much of the policy debates about fatherhood and marriage, it has been assumed that two-parent fam... JOHNS HOPKINS Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their... GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI 'Night of the Living Dead,' then 'Dawn of the Dead' is a few weeks later, 'Day o... GEORGE A. ROMERO These people were supporting their families. Now we’re having to support their children. HENRY MORGAN Large families are communities unto their own. KILROY J. OLDSTER Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its... TOM LANTOS These are pretty substantial buildings. We are reasonably confident that we may land two or three ne... JAMES WYATT We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ... OSHO When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
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