Selected as a 2012 finalist for Best Children's Book by West Virginia Writers, Inc.! The Hermitage House Miracle starts with a deep hook. "I've given you the last six years of my life, and for what? To always be running from one town to another? Never having a life of my own just so you could live?" As Jamie lay alone in bed, not knowing his mother had just been killed while driving drunk, he was filled with disturbing thoughts. His mother's last words to him before going out did not make sense. He was even more confused when she had added, in a drunken slur, "If I had a lick of sense I'd have let old Ernie do what he wanted!" Why had his mother said she had given him the last six years of her life when he was twelve years old? After being sent to live at the Hermitage House for Children, Jamie begins to have a series of strange and troubling dreams. Each dream is about a little blond-haired boy who has a little sister and a mother and a father. But the mother is not his mother who was killed in the car accident and he had never known his father. Yet his dreams are always about the same family, especially the little boy and his dog. And the father programs computers and makes games, even promising to build the boy a video game so lifelike the boy will think he's actually inside it...