High-Altitude Doctor. Sarah Morgan

the biggest high on earth was her older brother’s approval. And she couldn’t fall because to fall would be to fail and no one in her family ever failed at anything.

      Everyone in her family was bold and fearless and kicked against the life-throttling ropes of convention. And she was going to be the same.

      So she closed her eyes and tried to forget the drop beneath her.

      She tried to forget that climbing terrified her. She tried to forget that heights made her stomach roll.

      And she climbed.

      Upwards, towards her brother’s approving smile. Her brother always smiled. And he was still smiling when he lost his footing moments later and plunged headlong down the sheer rockface, dragging her with him into a dark, dark void of terror and death.