Cottage by the Sea is a story about how the community of Santa Cruz supported the Adrian Dominican Sisters grow their health care ministry from the time they opened Sisters' Hospital in 1941 to when they joined Catholic Healthcare West in 1988. The book shares the colorful stories of over sixty-five people interviewed by the authors--including physicians, nurses, board members, guild members, employees and volunteers.

The highly successful campaign consultant Sybil Stone, diagnoised with cancer, is told to "get her house in order." Determined to leave a mark on Washington DC politics, she plans to posthumously publish a book about sex and politics. The president of Wiley and Wiley Publications agrees to publish her manuscript under her pseudonym "The Iron Butterfly"--the unflattering moniker given her by her daughters. Shaken by several deaths linked to her manuscript, Stone turns to an old friend, Senator William Hertz, head of the Senate Ethics Committee. She publishes her book immediately so Hertz has a...