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Are you sleeping? A novel? Kathleen Barber, Chapter one. Nothing good happens after midnight. At least that's what Aunt A used to tell us. Whenever we fight for later curfews, we would scoff and roll our eyes and dramatically pronounce She was ruining our social lives. But over time I came to see the wisdom in her words. Trouble is the only thing that occurs between midnight and sunrise. So when my phone rang at three o'clock in the morning, my first thought was Something bad has happened. I instinctively reached for Kayla, but my hand grasped only cool sheets. Momentary panic fluttered in my throat. But then I remembered. Kayla was three weeks away into a trip overseeing aid workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Still half asleep, I definitely worked it out at eight o'clock in the morning. There, Caleb must have forgotten about the time difference or miscalculated it. Frankly, neither mistakes seemed like him, but I knew how draining these trips were on him.