Chapter 12

" If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns. - Swedish Proverb "Hey come look at this..." Ryan said as he followed Katrina and the old man into the living room. They were in the hallway and all around them lay portraits and pictures of people who he assumed were Katrina's maternal relatives. "What?" Katrina asked as she doubled back to him. "This... She looks familiar doesn't she? I could swear I have seen her face somewhere..." "The portrait in my dad's office. She is supposed to be my mother, he never talked about it but grandma let it slip one day..." "Who are those people with her?" That is my sister Charlotte and her husband Henry. Would you believe it that that picture was taken some months before you were born...they had been so happy until the accident occurred." "What accident?" Katrina turned around to address the man who had now introduced himself to them as Kenneth the younger brother of Katrina's maternal grandmother. "The one tha