The Healing Knife: Could revenge cut her free?

To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. The early loss of her beloved father from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age of forty. Everything else - friendship, love, empathy - is sacrificed to her obsession.

Now Rachel's surgical skills are twelve-year-old Craig's only hope for a normal life. His mother Eve holds a deep distrust of doctors, and her son is all she has. Reluctantly, she agrees for the operation to go ahead. But surgery is never predictable, nor is a devastated mother's terrifying reaction. Eve, it seems, wants a life for a life...