McDaniel, Lurlene

Shannon is shocked by her father's violent suicide. Now she is hurt that her love was not enough to make him want to live. Shannon and her mother try to make sense of his death and renew their commitment to living in the face of their loss.

Reminded of what life was once like by the opening of a first-grade time capsule, seventeen-year-old Alexis now faces the pressures of senior year in high school, her parents' total focus on work, and the recurrence of her twin brother's leukemia.

After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.

Fifteen-year-old Carrie has had leukemia for three years. She meets another cancer patient at a support group, and feels helpless as she watches her friend slip away.

Eighteen-year-old Heather travels as a volunteer to Africa, where she provides direly needed medical help in Kenya and Uganda and hopes to act as God's hands on Earth.

A collection of three stories in which teenagers face life-altering situations.

April Lancaster, recovering from the death of her fiance, is reluctant to tell her new love Brandon about her medical problems, but when the brain tumor that has been dormant for so long begins to grow, she realizes she must put Brandon's feelings to the test.

After her older sister Heather, enthusiastic about changing the world, returns from doing medical missionary work in Uganda, seventeen-year-old Amber feels ignored and confused about her own future and decides to go back to Africa in Heather's place.

Eighteen-year-old Heather travels as a volunteer to Africa, where she provides direly needed medical help in Kenya and Uganda and hopes to act as God's hands on Earth.

Dawn Rochelle, a seventeen-year-old girl with leukemia, suffers partial paralysis after three years in remission and, despite her doctors' optimism about her recovery, she wonders how she can find the strength to go on living with her disease.