Miracle - by Rebekah Pace & Stephen Hanson (Paperback)

About the Book

The story of a family with three interlocking stories--the decision to stop life support for their aging mother, the relationship between an American and a Haitian girl after Haiti's earthquake, and a young military Drone operator who falls for an Afghan woman--will force us to examine how we tally a human being's life on a balance sheet.

Book Synopsis

How much is a human life worth?

It's December 2010 and Frank has just learned that Britain's National Health Service will no longer pay to keep his comatose mother on life support. He and his estranged sisters--Elizabeth and Dawn, living in the US like him, and Tess in the UK with their mom--open painful family scars as they wrestle with the moral issues of ending their mother's life or draining their bank accounts to temporarily extend it.

A world away, one of the most-deadly earthquakes on record hits Haiti, trapping Dawn's Haitian-born girlfriend in Port-au-Prince. Cut off from the outside, Angie must fight for her own survival as well as that of a group of newly orphaned children. She will find unknown inner strength and learn that it's impossible to put a price on a child's life.

Meanwhile, an Air Force lieutenant is making a very different calculation. From his base in Nevada, Jim operates a predator drone in Afghanistan. Each of his kills, he's told, will save the lives of multiple Americans his high-value targets would otherwise take out. One day, through his eye in the sky, he notices the daughter of a man he's been ordered to surveil, and he soon becomes obsessed with her. As his imagined relationship takes on a life of its own, a kill order comes in and he's forced to weigh the costs of following--or not following--orders.

As the stories intertwine and eventually come to a head, a series of unexpected miracles will remind them all of the true value of a human life.

About the Author

Rebekah Pace is a pseudonym for the writing team of William Roetzheim and Randy Becker.
A former naval flight officer, William started his career in the tech industry. After launching multiple software companies, he turned his attention to writing, penning an award-winning trilogy of plays about America's great poets. He was editor of the anthology and spoken word CD Poems of Inspiration and Faith.
Randy is an Emmy-nominated producer who began his career as an actor starring in film, television, and on Broadway (including the Tony Award-winning play Love! Valour! Compassion!). He now expresses his creativity through writing and producing. This is the third book William and Randy have co-authored as Rebekah Pace, including The Red Thread and All I Want for Christmas.