INSIDE THE NOVEL
The crisis is medical.
The story is human.
One week ago, Jenny Peterson was a healthy wife and mother. Now, a machine is breathing for her.
An ordinary respiratory illness spirals into catastrophic lung failure. At just thirty-eight, Jenny is fighting for her life in a surgical intensive care unit. Her family struggles to hold together a life that changed almost overnight, while the physicians and nurses responsible for her care face decisions with extraordinary consequences.
Told through alternating perspectives, Breathless takes readers inside a medical crisis and the lives it transforms—where advanced technology meets human vulnerability, and hope is never simple.
Jenny’s life has become a fight for survival. As her story unfolds, the novel explores the fear, vulnerability, and loss of control behind the monitors.
For Jenny’s husband and children, the crisis reaches far beyond the ICU. They must navigate uncertainty while trying to hold on to one another and the life they knew.
For the physicians and nurses at Jenny’s bedside, every decision has a human consequence. The novel follows the people behind the care, as well as the patient receiving it.
