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To Get the D-RgN

Michael is a second-best athlete who is powerless to help his father defeat cancer. No matter how hard he tries to be there for his mom or how much he tolerates his quirky sister, he cannot overlook the fact that his dad appears to be getting worse every day. After learning his beloved dad is at greater risk— and might have less time— than his family has been led to believe, Michael summons the courage to take action against impossible odds.

Armed with nothing but love, intelligence and a bus pass, Michael sets out for a biotech firm to find a D-RgN on a personal quest with no promise of success. This is not a book about magic wands or chivalrous heroes. This is a book about an everyday kid who is firmly rooted in reality but learns the true meaning of bravery.

“To Get the D-RgN” started as a request from my son, an advanced reader who could handle the complexity of YA novels as a fifth-grader but had zero interest in their more advanced topics. He was like Greg Heffley suddenly thrust into a world of virginal vampires and school shooters, an easygoing kid who was grappling with his dad’s first cancer diagnosis. One day, on a typical ride home from school, he said “there should be more books about dragons”. I appreciated my son’s belief that I could just toss together a novel while working at three newspapers but I halfheartedly drafted an intro graf or two then put it aside in the chaos of life. Nine years later, my husband was deteriorating in the end stages of a third cancer diagnosis which he would not survive. One day, I opened up the document where I’d started writing the book for my son and realized he had really been asking for a book about a hero. What if the story was not about defeating a dragon but about defeating the dragon, the thing we most fear on a personal level. Suddenly, I knew the story and I began racing to finish the book for him as an 18th birthday present. A disclaimer: “To Get the D-RgN” is fiction but sprinkled with details which recall my kids and their friends during that magical age before life gets real. This is not a book about my kids but a book about any kid who has ever wanted to be a hero in a world where the ease of childhood ends too soon.

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