Publisher's Synopsis
Shelly White, a small-town girl from Georgia, has her life forever changed when she is diagnosed with cancer at the age of 8. Her miraculous recovery from a malignant tumor at St. Theresa's Children's Hospital in Atlanta, and watching her roommate die, puts her on a path to wipe out cancer in her lifetime so no one else has to suffer. Her only true love as she grows up is the children she now calls her patients, until a chance meeting with a local advertising executive, Nick Harris, blossoms. With a savvy marketing campaign, together they find out there is one man who may have the formula to eradicate the disease. But time is running out. The elderly man is in hiding as he knows his life is in danger. His secret could put thousands of people out of work and destroy the riches of many pharmaceutical companies. Shelly and Nick will need to go all the way to the top for favors if they are ever to find the elderly man-and the cure for cancer. Author Mark Spinicelli and ghostwriter Kevin Fritz bring real-life experiences and emotions into the body of this novel, as cancer has sadly taken the lives of many of their family members. Mark lost his sister, Kristin, who was much too young, and Kevin has lost his father, aunt, uncle and grandmother to the disease. Catching A Miracle was created to offer hope to those who are afflicted with this disease, as well as those who endure watching the pain and suffering, and eventually the life slipping away from their loved ones. The notion of giving hope that a cure is out there is not far-fetched, which could turn this fictional read into reality. A report in 2011 claimed scientists at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada, discovered the cure, but it has yet to materialize. Israeli scientists have found rat cells secrete a substance that destroys cancer cells in humans. There is hope, and they can see the light.
