Danielle Steel\'s powerful, personal Story of the 19-year-old son she lost to the masked killer called manic depression recounts the author\'s tender, painful memories and shares Nick\'s remarkable journals, bringing readers a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him.
At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel\'s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all..
Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick\'s 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.
This is Danielle Steel\'s powerful, personal Story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness.
By nineteen, he was dead.
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 mother\'s joy.
I want to make a difference.
I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. . . .
I want Nick\'s life to be not only a tender memory for us, but a gift to others.
I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it.
It is the Story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death.
This is the Story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul.
Includes a new Afterword by the author.
Danielle Steel\'s powerful, personal Story of the 19-year-old son she lost to the masked killer called manic depression recounts the author\'s tender, painful memories and shares Nick\'s remarkable journals, bringing readers a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him
