The Chronicles of Integrated Friends

A fiction novel about four people from different, different parts of the world, with different backgrounds and different lifestyles. They decided to come to Chicago, IL to attend college at North Western University. What made them go so far away from home? What were they trying to escape from?

Their friendship began during their freshman year and they are still best friends twelve years later. Why did they each decide to remain in the windy city after college, grad school, med school, and law school.

Why did they decide to pursue their careers and start their lives so many miles from home and family? They have each become very successful with extraordinary lifestyles. BUT they each have Major life altering secretes that would be devastating if anyone found out; especially each other.

How can you be so close to someone and yet be so far away at the same time?