"The Unbreakable Cord" is the powerful story of one mother's harrowing ordeal-an ordeal that begins in the trauma waiting area on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

With the help of a stuffed dog named Woody, author Bobbie Bomar-Brown relates the dramatic story of what happens after learning that her twenty-five-year-old daughter, Jennifer, was injured in a high-speed rear-end crash caused by a drunk driver.

Jennifer has a head wound requiring twenty-six staples and an open-book pelvis break that will require surgery as soon as she is stable. But when an X-ray reveals that her spinal...