title: Emma's Worry Clouds
author: Annabella Hagen
description: Annabella is the clinical director and owner of Utah Therapy for Anxiety Disorders in Provo, Utah. Her specialty is working with Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and other OC spectrum disorders. Annabella has worked for various Utah entities as a child therapist and as a parenting consultant. Annabella enjoys jogging, classical music, reading, yoga, and traveling. Her favorite pastime is playing with her young grandchildren.
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  For Elias and Jonah
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Acknowledgments
  
  
  
  
  
  Them that I love, know that I love them. This time I want to thank my readers,
  who have stuck with me through this whole epic roller coaster of a saga,
  through cliff-hangers and angst and feels. I wouldn’t trade you for all the
  glitter in Magnus’s loft.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In God ’tis glory: And when men aspire,
  
  
  
  
  
  ’Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.
  
  
  
  
  
  —John Dryden, “Absalom and Achitophel”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PROLOGUE:
  
  
  
  
  
  ## FALL LIKE RAIN
  
  
  
  
  
  ### The Los Angeles Institute, December 2007
  
  
  
  
  
  On the day Emma Carstairs’s parents were killed, the weather was perfect.
  
  
  
  
  
  On the other hand the weather was usually perfect in Los Angeles. Emma’s
  mother and father dropped her off on a clear winter morning at the Institute
  in the hills behind the Pacific Coast Highway, overlooking the blue ocean. The
  sky was a cloudless expanse that stretched