Publication History July 2008. Bloodletting Press hardcover. Book #6 in novella/short novel series. Limited to 400 signed and numbered hardcovers bound in blue cloth. $45. ISBN # 978-1-935006-02-2. March 2009, Bloodletting Press Lettered edition. 26 copies lettered A-Z. Bound in blue leather with raised Caduceus image on the cover. Special end papers and binding with a blue page marker, book rests inside a handcrafted blue tray case with the Alan M. Clark cover painting inlaid over the lid of the case. Book lifts out via a blue ribbon sewn inside the case. No ISBN. $225. Out of print.     Bloodletting Press, 2008

Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need.

But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle's in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of "Physical Therapy" consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture.

And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.

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