Dani woke face down in bed facing a long, narrow window that she didn’t recognize. Hovering at the edge of full consciousness, her hand opened and closed, as if it missed something. She rolled onto her back with a groan. Above her was an unfamiliar ceiling.
“Where am I?” For a moment she felt like she had done this before. She frowned. In her book Putting Love Away, her protagonist, Gemma had awakened in a strange room, so in a way she kind of had done it before. Gemma, she recalled, had been naked when she woke up. Dani lifted the sheet and examined her clothed body with mixed feelings. “Obviously I didn’t do what Gemma did.”
Dani sat up, pulled her legs to her chest and propped her arms on her knees. She couldn’t believe she had slept past five. It was a breakthrough, even if her brain
