A mother's worst nightmare, Lacy Kellam's three month old son Danny stops breathing one June morning after his DPT vaccine. The doctors never tell her what caused his seizures and she doesn't learn the truth for 20 years. After Lacy joins forces with an attorney in her small town, the two very different women grow to be friends as they uncover the scandal behind the government's compensation fund for vaccine-injured children.
Excerpt
You'd think in a big city hospital there'd be a ton of people. Ambulances and doctors rushing around. But that hospital was like a funeral home. No noise, nothing moved. And on the floor there was a single line of black tile. One line in a great wide ocean of white, winter everywhere. Not a real color, just cold, cold enough to drown in. It was July in Virginia for God's sake and I was frozen. Over and over I mixed that stupid oatmeal and heard that sound when he stopped breathing. But I couldn't step across that damn line.
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"A brilliant debut by a fine new novelist, a rare gem - a superbly written tale about the things that matter most in life - such as love and family . . . Honenberger is a gifted storyteller, a master of nuance who knows how to move you deeply, how to lift your heart; how to grab your attention and hold it."
A page-turning novel about a relationship between best friends that is interrupted because of betrayal , deceit, sexual promiscuity and pregnancy happens!
