Finding Theo: A Father's True Story of Loss, Courage, and Discovery [Paperback]

Theo Krause gains speed as he drops into a ravine on a remote Colorado mountain biking trail. Rounding a bend, his bike hits an awkward bump, hidden by the shadows, that catapults him head first into an aspen tree, splintering his neck. Staring at the sky, paralyzed, he thinks, This is where I will die.

A mountain rescue team races in while a helicopter crew positions for a dangerous airlift. Hours later and five hundred miles away, Theos mother takes a phone call. The news is devastating. Her son will never walk again.

Finding Theois a fathers raw account of his sons courageous battle for life. It is also a deeper story of discovery about the people whose lives became interwoven with Theos: the son of an Iranian immigrant who found him beside the trail, medical professionalsone, the sister of a Columbine High School massacre victimand the cast of friends who guarded his soul.

Long after the last page turns,Finding Theoprovokes questions about the meaning of miracle and the way the world was made to work.
Strangers and friends converge in an epic battle against an unthinkable future and an ordinary miracle transforms a parents nightmare into an affirmation of hope.Marketing and Public Relations Campaign  five figure budget
Cindy Birne Public Relations has been retained to provide publicity, marketing, promotion, and advertising outreach on behalf of Finding Theo.

• Advance distribution of ARC to reviewers, bloggers, journalists, librarians
• National, regional, and local TV, radio, and print media campaign
• Select paid advertising in book industry and mainstream consumer publications including Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus Review, Library Journal, ForeWord Reviews
• Press releases, Official book launch events in Dallas and Denver
• Book signings, speaking events and author tour in target markets including: Denver, Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, WashinlC%