""The last thing I remember is the girls playing with my hair. It is curled on my forehead and they stroke it gently while I fall asleep. I wake up suddenly, my body wracked with hot piercing pain. I'm in a car that's hurtling through the night, and all around me is darkness. I'm lying across someone's knees. The pain intensifies and shoots hot, raking talons down my body as I hear hideous screaming. It takes a moment before I realize I'm the one screaming, then I drop back into the deep depths of blackness.""

Dave Hammer is only five years old when tragedy strikes in the middle of the night on a long weekend. Horribly burned in a fire, Dave struggles to survive. This is the autobiography of a family's love, and one little boy's determination to live, setting the stage for an epic battle for life. Journey with Dave through the story of his life filled with inspiration and hope.

""The last thing I remember is the girls playing with my hair. It is curled on my forehead and they stroke it gently while I fall asleep. I wake up suddenly, my body wracked with hot piercing pain. I'm in a car that's hurtling through the night, and all around me is darkness. I'm lying across someone's knees. The pain intensifies and shoots hot, raking talons down my body as I hear hideous screaming. It takes a moment before I realize I'm the one screaming, then I drop back into the deep depths of blackness.""

Dave Hammer is only five years old when tragedy strikes in the middle of the night on a long weekend. Horribly burned in a fire, Dave struggles to survive. This is the autobiography of a family's love, and one little boy's determination to live, setting the stage for an epic battle for life. Journey with Dave through the story of his life filled with inspiration and hope.

Dave Hammer is only five years old when tragedy strikes in the middle of the night on a May long weekend. Horribly burned in a fire, Dave struggles to survive. This is the gripping autobiography of a family s love, and one little boy s determination to live, setting the stage for an epic battle for life. You will experience the highs and lows with Dave as you journey through a story filled with inspiration and hope. In Dave Hammer s memoir, we journey with a young boy wrestling with death, overcoming infections, mastering button holes, arriving eventually to the inner-workings of a man, superficially disfigured, yet solicitous, living with measured humour and seasoned grace. It is a story of hope that surprises and inspires; a testimony to the strength God offers in our supreme weakness. Christina Crook This book was a fantastic read. It brought me to laughter and to tears as I read Dave Hammer s light-hearted yet dramatic memoirs. More importantly, it touched my heart deeply and encouraged me just at a time when I really needed encouragement. If you think you will find a tragic story in these pages, you will be surprised that, on the contrary, this book is filled with hope and triumphant victories. Janet Hazlett