When
The Going Gets Tough
Remember
that phrase? When the going gets tough, the tough get going. But what
is the measure of being tough? Who do you see and think, “Wow,
they’ve got a will made of granite. Unbreakable.”
Do
you assume it’s the guy who looks as if he’s spent half of his
life dedicated to the gym and has muscles on top of his muscles? Or
do you look at the quiet, slight slip of a teenage girl sitting in
the Oncologist office, and realize beneath her pain she holds more
determination than a whole gym full of muscle bound tough guys?
When
Kay, the main character from The
Burning Star,
is diagnosed with a fast moving terminal cancer, her world stops.
Being only seventeen years old, Kay is devastated when the
Oncologists tell her that she will not live long past her eighteenth
birthday, which is just months away. She watches as her Mom refuses
to accept the doctor’s diagnosis and starts making plans to find a
miracle cure. Kay battles with her emotions as she does her best to
comfort her mom. She regrets not living her life to its fullest and
the missed opportunities she had to be more of the person she always
wanted to be. She never planned on being the quiet girl in the corner
reading a book. She wanted to live the adventure. Experience that
once in a lifetime love. Not just imagine what it was like through
her favorite characters in the books she’s read. Now she has to
plan the best way to say goodbye to her mother.
Out
of the blue she meets Ryan. An inhumanly hot guy who saves her from
an animal that suspiciously looks anything but normal. But after Ryan
assures her it’s just a rabid dog and then blows her away by asking
her, Ms.-Completely-Awkward-Around-All-Hot-Guys, out on a date, she
sees her opportunity to live a little before she dies. Maybe even
experience her first kiss. Then the insane happens. Her cute
satellite installer guy, Nick, also asks for her phone number.
Suddenly the girl who had her life before her but didn’t live at
all is now the girl who has a timestamp on her future but is cramming
all that she can into that life.
When
her first date with Ryan goes horribly wrong, and a chain of
unbelievable events unfolds, Kay finds out that there is more going
on in her life than her cancer. Now she’s surrounded by the fact
that things she believed were only fairytales or myths in books are
real. Ryan is trying to convince her that she’s something that
she’s not, and her mother has secrets so big, that it could blow
her whole world apart. And when the going gets tough, Kay gets going.
Kay
takes on all of her new obstacles head on. She never lets the
protective, but pushy, Ryan and Nick tell her what she should do, or
how to do it. This is her adventure, and she’s going to live it.
But halfway through her journey to everything she never dreamed would
be possible; she finds out that there might be a miracle cure for her
after all. With new hope on the horizon, Kay will do anything to find
a cure. But will she live long enough to find it?
Now
who’s tough?
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