Her Artificial Heart

<p><em><strong>She wanted to give this eclectic man and his unique island half a chance if only they would stop hurling spitballs at her. Certainly while the dead children mad scientist and tasered woman had made for a rough start-if one ignored the monkey in a test tube then Homer's office this lovely garden and the man himself might qualify as quite likeable.</strong></em><br><br>Dr. Claudia Vlakia a maverick cardiac surgeon is summoned to a secretive Mediterranean island run by an enigmatic dictator. There she discovers a high-tech clinic fueled by illegal organ harvesting. With her goddaughter's life hanging in the balance Claudia must navigate a world of moral ambiguity and choose between her revolutionary bionic heart technology a black-market transplant and the dark secrets of a man who offers both damnation and salvation.</p><p><em>Her Artificial Heart</em> is a stand-alone novel in the Paths Unknown series about women adventurers. In the tradition of Michael Crichton and H.G.Wells this 85000-word bio-thriller is a cautionary tale about scientists who play God. A journey that questions whether the pursuit of greatness inevitably leads to moral and ethical corruption.</p>