California Angel

Who she really is and what she really does are bewildering questions even for Toy Johnson. She only knows that a near death experience has launched her on a journey into the unknown-a journey she is destined to repeat again and again with astonishing results. When she returns to her familiar work world as a teacher in Southern California and her seemingly ideal marriage to a brilliant surgeon she is haunted by dreamlike memories of children on the brink of death-children she believes she has somehow saved.<p>Her husband Stephen thinks she is hallucinating. Her best friend Sylvia thinks she is suffering from the frustrations of a childless marriage. The staff of a high-tech Manhattan hospital thinks this is how she deals with her mysterious and frightening malady. Yet despite what anyone thinks when Toy sees herself on television rescuing a boy from a deadly fire she knows she is a purveyor of miracles-a living angel. But this newfound vision of herself is challenged when she is arrested for kidnapping and charged with murder.<p>Toy's incredible journey into the realms of magic and divine intervention climaxes in a breathtaking courtroom trial where the laws of man come in riveting conflict with far higher laws and ordinary reason comes face to face with extraordinary revelation. While <b>Nancy Taylor Rosenberg</b> offers here the same gripping level of drama and suspense for which she is famous she also opens the door to a wondrous world where the spirit can triumphantly transcend the flesh. In Toy Johnson she has crated a heroine who will do more than make you believe in angels-she will make you believe in human beings.