Horribly injured in a firefight in Iraq, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Jon David Luke is a broken man. Unable to cope with everyday reality and racked with pain and unyielding nightmares, Jon David decides to end his life in a remote Alaska cabin. Sara Riley, a trauma physician, finds her life spiraling downward after discovering an unfaithful husband. Increasingly, her life is haunted by an incessant, recurring dream. Though thousands of miles apart, startling events at the cabin inexorably draw Jon David and Sara together. Beautifully written and candidly told, After the Purple Heart takes...
Horribly injured in a firefight in Iraq, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Jon David Luke is a broken man. Unable to cope with everyday reality and racked wi...
On a warm summer day, six-year-old Danny Mercer races into the street to retrieve a soccer ball when the unthinkable happens. With the screech of tires and a sickening thud, his world and that of his family shifts on its axis. Doctors deliver a shattering diagnosis in the form of an acronym: TBI. Traumatic Brain Injury. As months pass, with Danny in a prolonged coma and hope for recovery fading, the emotional trauma to his family escalates. Desperate to heal their son, parents Colt and Rachel Mercer turn to doctors Jon David and Sara Luke, a husband-and-wife medical team, for help. Their...
On a warm summer day, six-year-old Danny Mercer races into the street to retrieve a soccer ball when the unthinkable happens. With the screech of tire...