On my nineteenth birthday I had everything I needed for a successful life. Good grades due to my brainpower and discipline, a fresh start into university financed by my parents, and on top of all a gorgeous body plenty of men were interested in. Still I felt an empty gap in my life. Though I had and was everything important I had been taught to be and have, there was something important left. I was missing a purpose. Everything others valued me for seemed shallow. It wasn't mine to be proud of. In fact...

Summer vacation, which meant the Gulligan family was gathered at the parents mansion. Their oldest daughter Clara and the second son Oliver were usually away studying at Harvard and Yale, while their youngest James was busy with school or going out with friends. Gathered also might not be the exact right word, since the Gulligans were so filthy rich that every member had a voluminous part of the house for its own. They only met for lunch and to discuss "family matters", a grave word in the...