Description"This is the Story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul.
About the author Danielle Steel has been hailed as one of the world\'s most popular authors, with over 650 million copies of her n.
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.
In the end, perhaps nothing could have saved him from the insidious disease that had shadowed him from his earliest years.
When he was finally diagnosed and treated, it bought time, but too little.
He bared his soul in his journal with uncanny insight, in searing prose, poetry, and song.
Even as he struggled, Nick\'s charisma and accomplishments remained undimmed.
But by the time he entered junior high, Danielle Steel saw her beloved son hurtling toward disaster and tried desperately to get Nick the help he needed--the opening salvos of what would become a ferocious pitched battle for his life.
His gift for writing was extraordinary, his musical talent promised a golden future.
Nick always marched to a different drummer.
And at first, even his mother explained away his quicksilver moods.
He was a brilliant, charming child who never slept.
He spoke in full sentences at age one.
Signs of his illness were subtle, often paradoxical.
Nick rocketed through life like a shooting star.
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.
It is the Story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death." From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother\'s joy.
Description"This is the Story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul
