This book starts out stating the facts. A young teenager named Anna Fitzgerald begins telling her story of why she was created. She says she was made to save her sister Kate who has leukemia. In other words, Anna is the extra body, who will be used whenever Kate becomes sick and needs something like blood, or any other essential body part. It also talks about Anna selling a locket she had to a pawn shop.
In the next section, Campbell, a lawyer is brought into the picture. Anna is talking with Campbell about her situation and he thinks this will be a sure fire case that she will win. It seems obvious to him that this case will be won on Anna's side. He feels compassion for Anna because she is the back-up child. He also wants to help out with the case for publicity because he knows this case would be a popular one.
Sara, Kate and Anna's mother is the star of the next section. In this part there is a flashback to when Kate's disease was first discovered. Sara would find buises all along Kate's spine and body, so she took her to the hospital to get tests done. When they found out that it was leukemia, they were devestated. The docters told them that she would have a 23% survival rate. Sara was committed to keeping Kate alive.
Brian Fitzgerald nararates the next section where Sara gets mad because Kate has a t-shirt on that says "cancer" on it. I've noticed that Kate seems to be fine with her disease for the most part and Sara is very touchy about the subject. Later Jesse, they're son, walks in smelling like pot and drugs. Anna arrives after and Brian could tell something was wrong with her, but said nothing. At the end of this section Brian and Sara discuss their concerns for their children, mainly their daughters.
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