Chapter 1 - THE ACCIDENTAL SWEET (SUMMARY)
Dr. Graham Ashford arrived home to the nightmarish spectacle of flashing red ambulance beacons reflecting off his hallway floor. Inside, his seven-year-old daughter, Lily, sat huddled in agonizing distress beside an overturned prescription vial, while Graham’s trembling mother confessed she had left the room for only moments. With the label torn and the contents unknown, Lily whispered that she had mistaken the lethal white tablets for candy. Before slipping into lethargy, she extracted a tearful promise from her terrified father for morning pancakes with strawberries. As the ambulance doors slammed shut, Graham held Lily's limp hand, stepping into the fight of his life.
