In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing » (Reprint)

Lee Woodruff is the life and family contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America and a freelance writer. She is on the board of trustees of the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides critical resources and support to our nation’s injured service members, veterans, and their families, especially those affected by the signature hidden injuries of war: traumatic brain injury and combat stress. Lee Woodruff lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, and their four children.

In An Instant is much more than the dual memoir of love and courage. It is an important, wise, and inspiring guide to coping with tragedy - and an extraordinary drama of marriage, family, war, and nation.

In January 2006, the Woodruffs seemed to have it all - a happy marriage and four beautiful children. Lee was a PR executive, and Bob had just been named co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight." Then, while Bob was embedded with the military in Iraq, an IED killed his cameraman and nearly killed him. In An Instant is the frank and compelling account of how Bob and Lee's lives came together, were blown apart, and then were miraculously put together again.

Bob Woodruff joined ABC News in 1996 and has covered major stories throughout the country and around the world for the network. In December 2005, he was named co-anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight." On January 29, 2006, while reporting on U.S. and Iraqi security forces, Woodruff was seriously injured by a roadside bomb that struck his vehicle near Taji, Iraq.

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

Thus humanized in ways that would violate the cheer of the talk-show circuit on which they have lately been appearing the Woodruffs reveal both the strengths and weaknesses that they brought to coping with Bob s crisis. Their frankness heightens the book s impact, as does its wider subject: the increasing frequency in Iraq of explosion-induced head injuries like those Bob suffered. This book means to draw compassion and attention to those casualties, and it surely will.