The Hawthornes' Little Healer

Apple rescues Nathan Hawthorne after he collapses in the mountains while searching for a sage who can break his family's century-old curse. Adopted into the Hawthorne household, she soon reveals that she is the healer he needed: she saves Adrian from a car, revives the gravely ill patriarch with acupuncture, and survives Olivia's attempt to frame her for harming him. Apple's medical insight brings further enemies when she diagnoses Rachel Lawson's parasites and is mocked before proving herself, but even the assassins sent after her and an elder of traditional medicine ultimately acknowledge her extraordinary skill. As her fame grows, the once-dismissed child becomes the Hawthornes' cherished good-luck charm and their best hope of ending the curse.