A Sundog Moment

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What do you do when your whole life changes in an instant? Now, from Sharon Baldacci, a dazzling new voice in the realm of fiction, comes a poignant novel of love and loss and faith redeemed ... a starkly beautiful story about what can be found

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The small rattle of a hospital door jerked Michael awake, the dream that was a memory shattered like glass breaking. Quickly he looked toward the bed. No movement. Good. God knows she needs to rest.

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Tight, anxious breath escaped in a singular sigh of relief. Gone was the awful spinning, like an out-of-control top, and now that the world was no longer twirling it was soundless, the quiet so rich she felt she could snuggle down into it.

Now, from Sharon Baldacci, a dazzling new voice in the realm of fiction, comes a poignant novel of love and loss and faith redeemed ... a starkly beautiful story about what can be found on the other side of a broken heart.

Lovely, talented Elizabeth Whittaker knows she leads a charmed life. Married to a man she's still passionately in love with, the proud mother of a daughter who's just gone off to college, she embraces each day with gratitude ... until the moment everything goes terribly awry.

The onset of her symptoms is sudden and terrifying: the dizziness, the disorientation, the dawning realization that she no longer has command of her own body. When the doctor comes back with the diagnosis, one word reverberates: incurable.

Elizabeth Whittaker has multiple sclerosis. For this vital woman and her family, the shock is absolute, the fear overwhelming. Embarking on a journey she would never have chosen, Elizabeth now faces tough physical and spiritual challenges-and when her search for relief creates a moral dilemma, the choice she makes threatens everything she holds dear.

But God doesn't make you go it alone. Even as she questions her most intimate relationships, Elizabeth bonds with others: the physician struggling with intolerable grief, the cousin coping with betrayal, the friend who refuses to let her disease define her and who gives Elizabeth new purpose and strength.

Yet it is her priest, Father Wells, who tells Elizabeth about the sundogs, the halos around the sun that herald a change in weather and also serve as signs of hope. The image of the sundog helps Elizabeth endure-and, finally, in the midst of her pain, find surprising moments of grace and joy ... from a merciful God who never fails.

Inspiring, authentic, and profound, A Sundog Moment could have been written only by one who knows first-hand what it's like to suffer from a catastrophic illness. Within these pages, Sharon Baldacci triumphantly demonstrates that nothing can defeat you as long as you hold fast to your faith.

Sharon Baldacci was diagnosed with MS twenty-one years ago. An award-winning journalist, she lives in Virginia with her husband and two sons..

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