Chapter 1

My name is Julianne. At least, that's my name in the library. And on the first day of every new life, that is my name for a few hours until it's changed. I think that's the god's name. Or close to the god's name. But with each new life, I am given a new name. First it was Julianne, and then it was Olivia, and then Kitty, and then Katrina. I don't know what my next name will be.

I think of all the friends I have left behind. Zea and Lance – darling Lance. Sometimes, in different lives, they are with me. But lately, the god has seen fit that they are no longer welcome in my life There are also the neighbors I had to meet.

I also think of every child that has passed, of course no mother could ever forget any of her children. And then there are my husbands, each one of them different, and yet all of them so uncannily similar.

I sense the god is near. In a while, I will be someone else. Again.