"I hesitate, unsure if I should take her trembling hand. Lizzie then mutters the first words she has spoken since this nightmare began. 'Please, Margot,' she says with a shaky breath. 'I need you.'" ~~~ Margot Darling is a teacher in her early twenties living in New York City. Her small world gets a bit bigger (and more complicated) when she grows close to one of her student's mothers, Ms. Olsen.