The Golden Hour: An Epic Journey of Redemption and Deliverance in a Single Hour of Time

Near death after a head-on crash, Judith is cast into a nightmarish tunnel where three separate lights try to claim her. In those moments between living and dying, Judith’s reincarnate soul materializes out of the light in the guise of a newborn infant. To save her life, Judith and “Baby” must journey back forty-seven years into her past and three-years ahead into Baby’s terrible future. All the while, the brightest light of all beckons with complete oblivion.

Patricia Dianne Pintar has used experiences from her extensive career in nursing to write The Golden Hour. From Pediatrics to Hospice Care, none had been more challenging than years she spent in the Emergency Room and Critical Care. It was in the ER while she and the team thumped chests and pushed life-saving drugs into unresponsive critical patients that she first began to question. “Where is this person right at this moment?” She’d hoped they were somewhere safe and pain free during the ordeal, but it was an enigma. Writing The Golden Hour is her literary attempt to answer that question. The term ‘Golden Hour’ was coined by R. Adams Cowley, founder of The Shock Trauma Institute in Baltimore. Dr. Cowley called this critical time ‘the time between life and death’ when that person has the best chance of survival within the first sixty minutes. In writing The Golden Hour, Pat describes an unexpected phenomenon that occurred. A series of subtle ‘leitmotifs,’ or recurrent themes throughout the novel appeared on their own. As scenes in Judith’s past, present and future unfold the reader may enjoy finding those connections. Pat is an award-winning writer of Idaho Writers Guild and University of Wisconsin Writers Institute writing contests. She is currently living in the foothills of Avimor just north of Boise, ID. She is writing a sequel to The Golden Hour called Echoes of the Past.