No Farewells

"What is it you're looking for?" she demanded. "Can't say." He was calm, preoccupied. It was half past three in the morning, and the soldier hunkered over her bedside cabinet was one of three searching her home. Marion O'Neill was unaware that her life had just changed forever; a sequence of events was about to carry her along a twisting, unfamiliar path, illuminated with sublime happiness and shadowed by crippling fear.