title: Breathing on Her Own - If time heals all wounds, what are we to do with our scars?
author:  Rebecca Waters 
description: Rebecca Waters views writing as both a gift and a ministry. As an education professor at Cincinnati Christian University, Rebecca s writing focused on journals of professional education. Now, after completing her fourteen year tenure at the university, Rebecca has turned her pen to freelance writing and to the completion of her first novel, <i>Breathing On Her Own.</i> <br /><br /> She has published in national publications such as <i>Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Lookout Magazine, and Home Health Aide Digest.</i> "My goal in everything I write is to serve God." Rebecca and her husband live in Florida. They have three adult daughters, three sons-in-law, and seven grandchildren.
zlib_text: Copyright 2015 Aria Kane
  Cover by: Jennifer Munswami
  Ebook design by: Sarah Nicolas
  
  Chapter 1
  Sophia
  Sophia clenched the steering wheel when another wave of dizziness washed
  over her. As the first rays of sun broke the horizon behind her, she chugged
  the last half of her third Red Bull of the night. Fifteen miles left.
  She pressed a hand to her left lower rib to check for blood seeping
  through the bandages. She'd already had to change them twice on this last-
  minute cross-country trip. Changing bandages was not something Sophia —
  or any Samson before her — had any practice in. When she was barely tall
  enough to reach the sink, her mother had told her the snake-shifter genes
  were the reason why her scrapes healed so much faster than all the other
  kids'. In twenty-seven years, Sophia had never had to worry about any wound
  for more than a couple hours — not even that time a bullet took a chunk out
  of her femur.
  But eighteen hours after taking a four-inch ceremonial blade to the
  stomach, 