Robert Lanza / Nancy Kress
Observer: A Novel
2003 (First published: 2003)
Caro Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a single mother with a disabled child. When she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, desperation forces her to take it in spite of serious suspicions. Caro finds more than she bargained for, including murder, love, and a deeper understanding of reality.