Ark (Forward Collection, #1)

by Veronica Roth

Her brothers, as well as her parents, had died in a car accident when she was eighteen years old.

And later, when she was home from college, to run her hands over the oxygen tank, to try on the mask her mother wore to breathe as her body broke down.

She had died of the same disease that had claimed Samantha’s mother’s life, cancer of the pancreas.

“How’d your dad die again?” Averill asked. “Suicide,” Samantha said. “Couple years after my mom.