{"product_id":"how-to-save-a-life-9780593158883","title":"How to Save a Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this moving love story, three friends find out what it really means to save someone.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A heart-stopping, heart-wrenching, and heartwarming story that kept me reading well into the night.\"--Clare Pooley, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Authenticity Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKerry Smith is going to save lives--and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working toward medical school, they are about to take their entrance exams. But on the eve of the new millennium, a classmate goes into cardiac arrest, changing everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor nearly eighteen minutes, rising soccer star Joel Greenaway is dead. For nearly eighteen minutes, Kerry performs CPR on her longtime crush. And for nearly eighteen minutes, Tim is too shocked to help. Though they don't yet know it, those eighteen minutes will change the next eighteen years of their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecause, as it turns out, saving a life doesn't always guarantee a happy ending. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith his soccer career cut short, Joel lashes out and breaks Kerry's heart by ending their burgeoning relationship with a cruelty that derails her future, while Tim struggles to reconcile his dream of becoming a doctor with the reality of failing to act. As each struggles to move on from the events of that fateful New Year's Eve, their lives can't seem to stop colliding year after year. Ensnared by their shared histories and her big heart, Kerry soon finds herself picking up the pieces after both broken men. But when Kerry is the one who needs saving, will anyone be there for her? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Kerry, Tim, and Joel discover what it means to love, to forgive, and to find your calling, \u003ci\u003eHow to Save a Life\u003c\/i\u003e shows us that there is more than one way to save a life--and more than one path to finding meaning in your own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEva Carter\u003c\/b\u003e was inspired to write \u003ci\u003eHow to Save a Life\u003c\/i\u003e by her own experience of giving CPR to her partner, who was successfully resuscitated, as well as her mother's stories of work as a trauma nurse. Eva Carter is a pseudonym for internationally bestselling nonfiction and rom-com writer Kate Harrison, who worked as a BBC reporter before becoming an author. She lives in Brighton on the south coast of England and loves \u003ci\u003eGrey's Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e, walking her dog, and running very slowly on the seafront.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387951911186,"sku":"9780593158883","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c460520-8814-478a-9e81-78c14635b28c.jpg?v=1728884725","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-save-a-life-9780593158883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}