One spent his life healthy, active and successful in an exciting sports business career. The other would be confined to a world of wheelchairs and special beds equipped to handle a fragile body left damaged from the tragic consequences of cerebral palsy.

The difference boiled down to who was born first. The younger brother, Mike, got the lucky break. The older sister, Kathy, never had a chance.

For years, Mike felt a burden to make up for Kathy's lost opportunities. It was an unseen pressure and pain he silently carried throughout his life. Childhood visits to his sister's special home were reminders of the self-imposed sentence, deepening with every trip. When he finally left home and was on his own, the memories of that place were soon relegated to distant images he'd prefer to forget. Rarely was his sister ever mentioned to others as life carried on.

Then all that changed dramatically one day at a table in a bustling coffee shop. A divorced and single dad, Mike found himself facing several crossroads at once. And Kathy, in and out of hospitals for years with a myriad of illnesses, was swiftly declining as she approached her 40th birthday. Across from Mike sat a woman he had never met with a message he was not expecting to hear.

Over the next six months, lessons from Kathy's life would intersect with Mike in ways he never knew existed. Through numerous acts of divine intervention, a connection of two paths toward one heart was revealed. One heart had been given. The other had to be discovered.

Revelations that began in winter and continued through spring resulted in a book written in ninety days. And by summer, redemption was found within the story taking place behind the scenes all along.

(Original, raw manuscript that led to author's second book, Cottage 12, released five years later with 70% different content than Redemption by Summer.)