Chapter 46 Summary

Detective Nick Ruskin calls Cross to tell him that Kate McTiernan was pulled from the Wykagil River by two young boys who skipped school to go fishing. Ruskin picks Cross up and drives him to the hospital to see Kate. Cross feels Ruskin is starting to come around—that Ruskin perhaps believed that Cross had information that might help him with the case. This could be Ruskin's big case. Ruskin tells Cross that Kate's survival is a miracle. She did not even suffer a major broken bone. However, she cannot talk and is suffering from post-traumatic shock. No one knows how she got in the river or how she escaped from Casanova. As they approach the hospital, media is everywhere.

Cross reviews all of Kate's medical charts, nursing notes and write-ups. He reads the police reports detailing how the two twelve-year-old boys...