Part One: The Hero, The Friend: August 24 - 26: Chapters 1 and 2 Summary

Holly is sitting at work the day before her vacation is due to start. She doesn't feel like going home, so she calls up the coming edition on her computer and looks over the news headlines. One headline takes her by surprise. Opening the story, she finds another incident involving Jim Ironheart and the rescue of a young boy. Again, he leaves before media or authorities can get there. On impulse, she uses keywords like Jim and rescue and searches news items from all stations to see what comes up. Weeding out those that didn't belong, she tries the search again, using several different keyword combinations. She puts all of the stories she finds into chronological order, but the last one surprised her the most...