Brooke's Promise

by Janice Berliner

Overview

How do you put your life back together after learning your past is a lie? Thirty years after fifteen year-old Julia is misunderstood by her parents and sent to boarding school, her son pushes his wife into a pregnancy she isn't wholly ready to undertake. When their beautiful baby girl displays a frightening failure to thrive, a series of medical evaluations diagnoses a devastating disease that reveals a world of secrets and threatens to unravel their marriage and their families. Brooke's Promise is a bold and hopeful story about changing expectations, forgiveness and reconciliation.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162779070
Publisher:	Kindle Direct Publishing
Publication date:	05/31/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	698 KB

About the Author

Janice Berliner is a licensed and board certified genetic counselor, who has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of prenatal, pediatric and cancer genetic counseling. She is now an Associate Professor and the Director of the Master of Science in Genetic Counseling Program at Bay Path University in East Longmeadow, MA. She has written many lay and scholarly articles and book chapters on genetics topics, edited a book entitled Ethical Issues in Genetics and Genetic Counseling: Principles through Case Scenarios, and volunteers extensively within her profession and her community. Brooke’s Promise is Janice’s first novel, derived from her expertise working with patients and their family members facing the risk of disease, and the intensely personal and life-altering nature genetic illness can have on family relationships. Janice lives in New Jersey with her husband, two cats, and three adult children who come and go at will.