The Touch
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2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary series category.Andrew Jones was once one of the few surgeons in the world to have that rare, God-given ability calledThe Touch. But after failing to save his young fiancée, Faith, at the scene of a car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room.Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon?s hands, reducing or eliminating failed surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this surgical tool, and all of them have failed.As Lara pursues Jones?s skill for her project, Jones?s stubborn resistance cracks, and he begins to open up to her about the wounds that still haunt him. But when Jones discovers the urgency behind Lara?s work, he must choose to move beyond his past. As each is forced to surrender secret fears, they are bonded together through the lives of the people Jones serves and by the healing secret that Faith left behind.From the Inside FlapAndrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift; his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room.Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon?s hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this tool and all of them have failed.Discovering Andrew?s unique surgical skills, Lara is determined to work with him. But Jones wants no part of it until he discovers the urgency behind Lara?s work . . . and somewhere, somehow, he must find the courage to trust The Touch.Also included: Author interview and discussion questions for book groups or individual use.From the Back CoverAndrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift; his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon?s hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this tool and all of them have failed.Discovering Andrew?s unique surgical skills, Lara is determined to work with him. But Jones wants no part of it until he discovers the urgency behind Lara?s work . . . and somewhere, somehow, he must find the courage to trust The Touch.Also included: Author interview and discussion questions for book groups or individual use.?Every person is the hero of his own life. And no matter how often we feel insignificant, we know in our depths that something in us comes from God. The profoundest moments in life are the ones that tell us we matter to someone, and this to me is the essence of faith and the essence of love . . .? ?Randall WallaceRandall Wallace is an author, screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter. He directed the movieSecretariat. His other films includeBraveheart,Pearl Harbor, andWe Were Soldiers.
2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary series category.Andrew Jones was once one of the few surgeons in the world to have that rare, God-given ability calledThe Touch. But after failing to save his young fiancée, Faith, at the scene of a car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room.Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon?s hands, reducing or eliminating failed surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this surgical tool, and all of them have failed.As Lara pursues Jones?s skill for her project, Jones?s stubborn resistance cracks, and he begins to open up to her about the wounds that still haunt him. But when Jones discovers the urgency behind Lara?s work, he must choose to move beyond his past. As each is forced to surrender secret fears, they are bonded together through the lives of the people Jones serves and by the healing secret that Faith left behind.From the Inside FlapAndrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift; his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room.Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon?s hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this tool and all of them have failed.Discovering Andrew?s unique surgical skills, Lara is determined to work with him. But Jones wants no part of it until he discovers the urgency behind Lara?s work . . . and somewhere, somehow, he must find the courage to trust The Touch.Also included: Author interview and discussion questions for book groups or individual use.From the Back CoverAndrew Jones is a young doctor with an amazing gift; his abilities in surgery are astonishing. But when he cannot save a young woman at the scene of a fatal car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon?s hands, eliminating human error during surgical procedures. Lara has pursued the best surgeons in the world to test this tool and all of them have failed.Discovering Andrew?s unique surgical skills, Lara is determined to work with him. But Jones wants no part of it until he discovers the urgency behind Lara?s work . . . and somewhere, somehow, he must find the courage to trust The Touch.Also included: Author interview and discussion questions for book groups or individual use.?Every person is the hero of his own life. And no matter how often we feel insignificant, we know in our depths that something in us comes from God. The profoundest moments in life are the ones that tell us we matter to someone, and this to me is the essence of faith and the essence of love . . .? ?Randall WallaceRandall Wallace is an author, screenwriter, director, producer, and songwriter. He directed the movieSecretariat. His other films includeBraveheart,Pearl Harbor, andWe Were Soldiers.