<b>A poignant short story from the internationally bestselling author of <i>My Sister's Keeper</i> and <i>The Storyteller</i>. </b><br><br>Alice Metcalf is unlucky in love and was fired from her last job. She is on a tenuous footing in her current one, and has just received the worst news of her life. But when she comes across a family of elephants, killed for their ivory, she can't abandon the surviving calf. Trying to hide a hundred-pound baby elephant in her camp may be difficult, but Alice is ready to break all the rules to save the one life she can.<br><br>A haunting, beautifully told prequel to Jodi's novel <i>Leaving Time</i>.