Kathleen, from privileged Newport, Rhode Island; Colleen, from a poor, remote Irish village - two teenagers on opposite sides of the Atlantic whoose lives are in great danger. Both girls are pregnant. A private detective named Anne Fitzgerald suddenly has the case of a lifetime - she quickly finds herself caught between the certainty of science and the possibillity of a miracle which could stop the terrible medical epidemics now sweeping the globe. -- back cover.