Liz and Jack Sutherland have the perfect life: happy marriage, successful joint law practice, and five wonderful children. It falls apart when a disgruntled client shoots Jack, on Christmas morning. Suddenly, Liz is alone, trying to be both mother and father to the devastated children. She struggles to keep the practice going and to coach her youngest for the Special Olympics. Then, a few weeks before Labor Day, the oldest child is in a devastating accident. Doctor Bill Webster becomes friends with Liz as he slowly heals her shattered son. Soon she is starting to think of living again but her children fear she is forgetting their father. A book about hope, this is classic Steel.

"Everything Steel fans expect...among other things a book about hope." (amazon.com)