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DELAYED DIAGNOSIS
A Rhea Lynch, M.D. Novel (Book 1)
Author: Gwen Hunter
2012 Reissue Edition
5.5"x 8.5" Trade Paperback
Retail: $15.95US; 300pp
ISBN 978-1-933523-90-3
ISBN 978-1-933523-41-5 ebook
LCCN 2012933252

Also available as Unabridged Audible Audio Edition

Dr. Rhea Lynch left a suffocating life in Charleston to practice medicine in the ER of a small South Carolina Hospital. Now, Dawkins County is her home, a place that holds the only real family she's ever known.

But when she returns from vacation, Rhea is shocked to discover that her best friend, Marisa, is near death and unable to communicate. The official diagnosis: a paralyzing stroke. Despite the family's attempts to keep her away, Rhea is determined to make her own diagnosis. In a surreptitious examination, a hideous truth is revealed.

Then a man is brought into her ER with similar symptoms. And then another. Each one of her patients has been willfully, brutally, silenced in a most inhuman way.

Desperate to find answers, Rhea must determine who she can trust, as a powerful conspiracy threatens the people she loves—and perhaps the entire community.

Praise for DELAYED DIAGNOSIS

Move over Robin Cook and Echo Heron! I had to stop reading a few times to calm myself down! My mother would call this exciting novel a WOO-WOO! ("Wow" and "Lu-Lu" mixed.) You will not be able to turn the pages fast enough. Here is a novel that I highly recommend to everyone! A KEEPER!
—Detra Fitch, Huntress Book Reviews

Hunter's exciting tale, told in first person, pulls readers into a strong woman's fight for friendship. Her heroine is well developed and inspirational—not in her perfection, but in fighting through her weaknesses.
—Debbie Richardson, Romantic Times

I like Hunter's new style. I know she's not really a doctor, she just writes about one. But after reading Delayed Diagnosis, I think I'll list her as my primary care physician with my insurance company.
—Ann Patterson, Spartanburg Herald-Journal

Hunter does everything right in this novel. Her pacing is great, scenes shift seamlessly, dialogue is crisp, often humorous and always to the point. Her character definition is complex and her plot development is logical.
—Thea Davis, The Mystery Reader

photo by Alison Singleton 

About the Author:

Under the pen names, Gary Hunter, Gwen Hunter, and Faith Hunter, the author writes action adventure, mysteries, thrillers, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy with over 37 books in print in 30 countries.
    Along with eight other writers, Hunter participates in a writing forum called www.magicalwords.net, geared to helping writers of fantasy and other genres.
    Hunter was born in Louisiana and was raised all over the South. She fell in love with reading in the fifth grade, and loved Si-Fi, fantasy, thrillers, and gothic mystery, with a secret passion for romance novels. She decided to become a writer in high school, when a teacher told her she had talent. She now writes full-time and tries to keep house, is a workaholic with a passion for travel, jewelry making, whitewater kayaking. She and her husband love to travel with their dogs in their RV to rivers all over the Southeast.

For more information please visit www.faithhunter.net, www.gwenhunter.com, and www.magicalwords.net.

And on FaceBook:
www.facebook.com/#!/gwen.hunter1
www.facebook.com/official.faith.hunter

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