Temple's first book is a best-selling and award-winning memoir called Warrior Patient: How to Beat Deadly Diseases With Laughter, Good Doctors, Love, and Guts. It received a B.R.A.G. Medallion, and it also won a 2015 Gold Medal at the Reader's Favorite Book Awards in Miami, Florida. It won an International Red Ribbon at the Wishing Shelf Awards in 2015. It is a humorous, true story of how a patient survives the best medical system that civilization has ever known (which tried but failed to kill him several times). Wrinkled Heartbeats is Temple's 1st novel. Midwest Book Reviews calls it: "a...

A war hero stumbles into a web of money-laundering, lies, and deadly secrets, including the "Gator Pole," a painful way to make people disappear in Florida's famous River of Grass, the Everglades. A very generous offer to buy the hero's luxury home includes an expiration date on his life. The only person who can save him is the person hired to kill him. For the warrior, one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the Marine Corps becomes a life-threatening allegory in the tropical paradise of the Palm Beaches. Wrinkled Heartbeats was one of six finalists for Best New Novel (under 80,000...

Warrior Patient by Temple Emmet Williams is a true story about one man's struggle to survive a series of medical problems over the space of three years. It's funny, not sad, sometimes deadpan, and often cheerful. The aim of this book is clear: educate the unsuspecting public on the dangerous and often deadly follies of the most advanced medical system that civilization has ever know. The book reads like a thriller. It is also a love story between the author and his wife of 44 years.

The book is written in the second person, in large type. The...

Wrinkled Heartbeats is Temple's first novel. Midwest Book Reviews has called it: "a deftly crafted and extraordinary novel, very highly recommended."

It was recently chosen as a Finalist in the prestigious 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It received the award as one of the best First Novels of the year (under 80,000 words).

Wrinkled Heartbeats has been awarded the coveted Awesome Indies Approval Badge. "This signals that a book has been crafted to the editorial standards of...