Cradle and All is a 2000 novel by American author James Patterson.
Kathleen, from privileged Newport, Rhode Island; Colleen, from a poor Irish village – two teenagers who are both pregnant, and both in great danger.
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 possibility of a miracle which could stop the terrible medical epidemics now sweeping the globe.
Once a nun and now a private detective with a Masters in psychology, Anne’s very belief in humanity is put to the ultimate test as she comes face to face with an unimaginable evil.