The Courage Tree
If you start your novel with a terminally ill child and a last-chance  herbal remedy, chances are you've got a story. If you have the terminally ill  child survive a car accident and become lost in the remote West Virginia woods  you've got some stressful reading. If, for kicks, you put a psychopathic  murderer in the woods, you've got Diane Chamberlain's nail-biting dramaThe  Courage Tree. Sophie Donohue is the wise-beyond-her-years child. Janine is  the mother wolf who courageously admits her child into the clinical trial of a  new medicine against the advice of her ex-husband, Joe, and her cynical parents.  Lucas Trowell is theliterallytree-hugging love interest who supports  Janine. Chamberlain knows how to place her characters in internal and external  conflicts, and there are rich subplots for each character, though the abundance  and timing of them can detract from the central drama. Even with its faults,The Courage Treewill lure you in and keep you reading late into the  night.--Nancy R.E. O'Brien--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.