Alex looked at the city spread out before her, reflected glass and brilliant, blinding light, everything that these coming weeks might hold. She had grown up in a run-down apartment in New York City, in a neighborhood that was always fighting to survive, had always known how much it took—how much you had to risk—to change a life. She had been the first in her family to go to college, the first in her family to dream of something more than this. Alex had spent her whole life achieving the impossible.
