The Beauty Beneath

<p>Margaret Millington is a wealthy cynical midfifties alcoholic suffering from depression. Peter Kearns is a thirty-one-year-old Catholic priest with a burn-scarred face he mysteriously suffered as a young child. Fate brings the two together and they develop an unlikely friendship that allows Margaret to witness the hope that the remarkable young man offers to people in a variety of seemingly hopeless situations ultimately giving Margaret herself a new purpose in life. When the charismatic priest is diagnosed with a terminal illness treatable only by a bone-marrow transplant from a blood relative his prognosis appears grim. Peter was raised in a series of foster homes in Chicago and no one knows the identity of his birth family. Did they neglect him as an infant? Worse still did they burn him intentionally? A determined Margaret puts her vast resources to work to try to find Peter’s biological family in time to save his life.</p>