This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind a heart of gold and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness a fight to live and a race against death.
I want to share the story and the pain the courage the love and what I learned in living through it. I want Nicks life to be not only a tender memory for us but a gift to others. . . . I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. I want to make a difference. My hope is that someone will be able to use what we learned and save a life with it.—Danielle Steel
From the day he was born Nick Traina was his mothers joy. By nineteen he was dead. This is Danielle Steels powerful personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender painful memories and Nicks remarkable journals Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him—and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression which afflicts between two and three million Americans.
At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness Danielle Steels tribute to her lost son is a gift of life hope healing and understanding to us all.
