"Physiological, edge of the seat thriller!"
Dr. Holland Banks is head of the Century Psychiatric
Hospital and president of the Schizophrenia Research
Foundation and the phrase Physician Heal Thyself is
foremost at the front of her brain. It's just not Holly's
week. She is suffering from terrible nightmares from which
she awakens thinking her hand is an evil being. At first,
she chalks this up to her inner feelings of being
inadequate. The doctor of a high-powered research
scientist, she has never measures up to dear old mad-
scientist daddy dearest's hopes. She feels she has to be
perfect, in her work, in her appearance, and the only place
Holly lets down her hair is her home. She could chalk up
the odd dreams to the pressure of younger doctors wanting
her position, and that she always fears someone is going to
find out she is not as good as she thinks she should be.
Except for one thing: someone is stalking her. She first sees him outside her exercise club, then later
coming out of a restaurant from a meeting with her father.
The man is handsome in a rugged way, and dressed in a plaid
shirt - always a plaid shirt. Her sense of losing her
sanity increased as she begins to hear his thoughts.
Someone took a shot at her...she thought it was the
stalker, but the police point out she was watching his
hands at the time and he was not holding a gun. Was someone
else shooting at her or were they shooting at him? The
riddle of the stalker's identity comes to light at a press
conference where her father announces his breakthrough in
genes altering. Holly fears her father is pushing into
areas that are not only outside of what is legal, but way
beyond what is ethical, and has warned him not to announce
she has anything to do with his work. Despite two warnings,
Leyland Banks does just this because he needs Holly's
reputation...and more. When the stalker breaks into the
conferences and attacks Leyland, Holly's grip on reality
slips even further, for she hears what the stalker is
thinking. The man, Jeff McQueen, is admitted to her hospital as a
patient, and Holly is strangely drawn to the reporter who
seems to have gone mad. Strangely he was blethering about
people who thought they were aliens...very similar to
Holly's own dream. As she begins to work with the reporter,
she starts to fear something dark and sinister is spreading
it tentacles through out the city. There are strange
deaths, people disappearing, and a sniper on the loose
racking up nearly two dozen kills...and at the bottom of
Holly's fears her father's work is the cause of it all. As Holly comes to understand that she and Jeff hears each
other's thoughts, as well as those of others like them,
they must hunt for answers to save their lives. Squires continually pushes the edge in her writing keeping
the readers off balance and pulling them along on the dark
ride. This is a first class nail bitter that you won't be
able to put down. Posted October 13, 2003
Reviewed by Deborah Macgillivray
Posted January 3, 2007
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Dr. Holland Banks is head of the Century Psychiatric
Hospital and president of the Schizophrenia Research
Foundation...but is she going insane? The rest of the world
seems to be. There's a sniper on the loose, she's being
stalked, her father is conducting deadly experiments, and
she's begun to hear voices: other people's thoughts. But a
man was just admitted to her hospital--one who searched her
out, whose touch can make her voices subside. Is he crazy,
too, or a solution to her fears? A labyrinth of conspiracy
is rising around her, and Holland's life is about to change
forever. Very soon there will be .....NO MORE LIES.
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