Nora Ray (Ray Trilogy)

Prologue

1965

Nora sat cross legged on her rock hugging her four year old daughter Lauren’s back to her chest. They both looked out over the valley below watching the dairy cattle grazing on the rich green grass of the meadow.

Her dream of becoming a medical doctor was still in the future. Yesterday she took the USMLE Step 2, United States Medical Licensing Examination. She felt like she passed the test, she would know in a few days. Her next step would be to intern. She was still a long ways from her goal of becoming a heart surgeon.

Nora brought Lauren to her thinking rock because she wanted her daughter to see the land where it all started, her beginning. The land had been in their family for five generations. A lump formed in her throat as she looked out over the valley. The land they loved and lost.