Harvard University, 2000
She'd finally done it. All her hard work and burning the midnight oil at both ends had paid off. It was her first day of college in the new millennium. Cat walked to her assigned dorm feeling vibrantly alive. For the first time in a long time, she'd felt that this was where she belonged. After the horrible accident of losing her parents in a landslide four years ago, she'd stopped feeling anything. But now she finally allowed herself to feel the first rays of hope.
Back home in Scarsdale, she'd had little to worry about and even little to challenge her intellect. Her innate intelligence and curiosity about everything had left her parents confused. But they had been the most loving and supporting parents in the world as they'd tried to keep up with their genius IQ daughter.
