I really enjoyed this book. Nathan is a police officer who is shot on duty and becomes paralyzed from the neck down. But who really shot him and why? This book is a mystery, but it also deals with medical ethics, adjustment to life as a family after such a devastating accident, healing, handicap access in public places, forgiveness, self-concept, and the care of those with disabilities.

Two stories are happening simultaneously, then they come together as one. The story is told from various points of view, but mostly from Nathan's and Dr Hannah's.

Some things were never explained... like surely Elizabeth master-minded the stealing of the baboon so that the experimental phase would move more quickly into testing on a human subject.