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Five year old Holly Martin, like all the females in her mother's family, has inherited a genetic mutation that sometimes causes an incurable and always fatal disease: Thornton's Mitochondrial Myopathy, TMM. Holly falls victim to rhe disease. The development of the little girl's illness is pivotal to the plot, which focuses on her parents? initial hope that she will escape it, their fear that she will not, the tragic reality of her terrible fate when the malady befalls her, their panic-stricken sorrow and their prayers that somehow she will be spared. They need a miracle. Holly's mother firmly...

Walking his dog at dawn on a cool October morning, Russell Island resident Jeremiah Parks discovers a body lying on the bloodied sand of the tiny Chesapeake Bay island's beach. Summoned to the scene, Police Chief Starrett Knight, the tranquil hamlet's one-man force, soon learns that the dead stranger was Kiril Varga, Deputy Prime Minister of Balkania. Ongoing peace talks in nearby Oxford, Maryland, seek an end to that pivotal nation's civil conflict before its internal turmoil reignites dormant ancient enmities, plunging the entire Balkan Peninsula back into war. Murder victim Varga was...

On Citrus County, Florida's Withlacoochee River, retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge and avid birder Owen Morganweck is brutally murdered. Because his body is never found in the alligator-filled waterway and other evidence is not definitive, the cause of death is ruled accidental. In Schooner Beach, New Jersey, Molly Joine's window screen is quietly raised as she sleeps, and a man's muscled arm reaches inside to fondle the pretty 12 year old in her bed. She awakes, screaming in terror. Three more such bizarre incidents shock and outrage the police and citizenry, but the popular seashore...