News!

Save the Child – New Edition published by Good Oak Press will be released soon.

Launch for this edition be at the WUFC Book Event Fundraiser at the Monterey Court Studio Galleries.

Date: March 24th, 2012  Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm  Location: 505 W. Miracle Mile Tucson, AZ 85705.

Their daughter has cancer!  What would you do?

“You are not going to pour poison straight into her heart!” Nancy’s determination to protect her daughter from the chemotherapy that the doctors insist she needs is fueled by boundless fury. She has seen cancer patients successfully treated with naturopathy. She wants the right to do this for Sharon, her eight year old child suffering from Leukemia.

Robert knows in his heart that chemotherapy is Sharon’s only chance to survive. He follows his law professor’s advice and forces himself to defend Nancy in public. As Sharon’s parents they have to appear united. His work, law school and family demand more than twenty-four hours a day of him, and more than he is capable of giving.

Abby, at age fifteen, craves independence but needs understanding. No longer receiving the attention she deserves from her distracted parents, she seeks adventure on-line, with a stranger. The result sends her to the same hospital as her sister, in a coma.

Five year old Ben misses his sisters. He blames his mother for making Grandma go away and his father for leaving him with strangers. Jack, the family dog provides his only comfort.

Phyllis, widow of a physician, can not condone her daughter’s irrational actions. But love and concern for her grandchildren pull her back to care for Benjamin amidst the raging battle.

Cancer is the enemy. Love is the remedy and Grandma is the angel who glues the family picture back together again.

“The storyline was almost hauntingly true for some parents and children who have to deal with cancer and Margaret Turley wrote well concerning both sides of the issue of parents rights concerning their children’s health care.” ~Juliet Elizabeth

“More than just a first-rate novel, Save the Child is a visceral experience, plummeting readers into the family trauma of pediatric cancer. Author Margaret L. Turley RN draws upon years of clinical experience, and actual interviews with parents who’ve faced this diagnosis, to create the nightmare faced by the Johnson family when their youngest daughter is diagnosed with Leukemia.