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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.