Gratitude--Book Only by Melody Beattie

Gratitude--Book Only by Melody Beattie

What if you find the woman of your dreams and are then diagnosed with degenerating blindness? What if this could mean that you may never see your unborn baby's face?

In this entertaining and engaging love story, The Fade follows the life of Patrick Bryce. A sales trader by profession and working on the West Coast Patrick finds himself forced East after a buyout that leaves him in New York City alone, single and suffering from numerous lifestyle founded neuroses. It is then that he meets Olivia, a brash and overconfident local and her bitter cat, Tinsel. Their touching and unique love affair runs before learning to walk and soon they are cohabiting and pregnant, an unplanned yet welcome event for both before Patrick is diagnosed as a having a variant of Stargardt's Disease, a strain that causes complete blindness leading him to embark on a journey of rediscovery.

Melody Beattie's truly personal and immensely healing book, The Grief Club, will guide readers through life's most difficult situations. The Grief Club is a collection of stories linked by the human experience of loss in its many manifestations, including death, divorce, drug addiction, and the stormy yet compassionate process of recovery. It's a book that everyone should read and share. Codependent No More, published twenty years ago, established Melody Beattie as a pioneering voice in self-help books and endeared her to those seeking healthy relationships. Melody has continued to let readers into her life through a series of best-selling novels, each accented with her distinctive candor and intuitive wisdom.