From the day that he was born, Nick Traina was his mother`s joy. By nineteen, he was dead.

He rocketed through life like a shooting star: a brilliant, charming child who never slept. But by the time he entered junior high school, he was hurtling towards disaster. His mother tried desperately to get him the help he needed, in what became a ferocious battle for his life. Even as he struggled, Nick`s charisma and accomplishments remained undimmed, and he bared his soul in a journal which, in poetry, prose and song, showed his innate talent. But nothing could save him from the insidious illness that had shadowed him from his earliest year.

Danielle Steel`s powerful story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned diring his courageous battle against darkness is at once a loving legacy and a gift of hope and healing.