Gift

He promised the dying only one thing: that they would not be alone.In a worn old building on East Baltimore Street, Dr. Jacob Moss treats the patients no one else will sit with. He gives the dying his time, his attention, and one promise: they will not be alone at the end. He refuses to promise more. He has seen what false hope does to people, and he would lose the clinic before he would sell it. He may have to.Henry Miles shows up rich, dying, and decades too late. He spent a lifetime using people. Now, with whatever the cancer leaves him, he wants to learn how to love the daughter and grandson he walked out on. Down the hall, a nine-year-old named Timmy Parker has the same disease that killed Jacob's mother. Somehow Timmy is the one teaching the grown-ups how to stop bracing and receive The Gift.Then a grieving family, an ambitious reporter, and a wave of online outrage that turns out to be paid for drag the clinic into court. The lawsuit wants to put a dead boy's name on the stand and call Jacob a fraud who killed a child with prayer and hunger. To save the people who trusted him, he has to prove the hardest thing in the world to prove: a thing he did not do. He never promised a cure. He never gave one.What saves him is not a miracle. It is a nurse's chart, and a line he would not cross. And it is a nine-year-old boy named Timmy, who received the Gift of Salvation — the one gift that lasts forever — and left it impressed upon his mother's heart, while all who knew him saw his peace and carried it, impressed upon their own minds and hearts.A faith-driven novel about the difference between curing and caring — and what it costs to tell the truth when a lie would sell better.