The Lake House
Prologue
RESURRECTION
The Hospital, somewhere in Maryland
At about eleven in the evening, Dr. Ethan Kane trudged down the gray-and-blue-painted
corridor toward a private elevator. His mind was filled with images of death and suffering, but
also progress, great progress that would change the world.
A young and quite homely scrub nurse rounded the corner of the passageway and nodded her
head deferentially as she approached him. She had a crush on Dr. Kane, and she wasn't the
only one.
"Doctor," she said, "you're still working."
"Esther, you go home, now. Please," Ethan Kane said, pretending to be solicitous and caring,
which couldn't have been further from the truth. He considered the nurse inferior in every way,
including the fact that she was female.
He was also exhausted from a surgical marathon: five major operations in a day. The elevator
car finally arrived, the doors slid open, and he stepped inside.
"Good night, Esther," he said, and showed the nurse a lot of very white teeth, but no genuine
warmth, because there was none to show.
He straightened his tall body and wearily pas ... read full excerpt from The Lake House ebook
