Eva Fischer-Dixon

Broschiertes Buch

A Good Doctor

Beschreibung

Everyone who knew Ilana Portman was certain that someday the young girl would grow up to be a popular cardiologist and pulmonary specialist. Seeing her ailing grandmother, Ilana became ever so determined to fulfill her destiny to become a doctor, so she pursued her goal with a vengeance. Finishing school years ahead of her peers, she became a doctor barely out of her teen years. After several personal tragedies in her life, the heiress of one of the largest businesses in the USA found herself alone. Abigail (Abby) Page, a fellow medical student, entered Ilana’s life at a vulnerable time, and she welcomed her new friend not only emotionally but also allowing her to move in with her. A short time later, Abby introduced a young man, Manfred "Man" Griffin, to Ilana. He was also a medical student whom Abby grew up with in Germantown, Pennsylvania; the three of them became close friends. Discovering a betrayal, Ilana moves to Washington, DC, to try to start a new life until Manfred reenters her life. Just as she thinks that she has finally found happiness, her newest discovery of a potentially deadly betrayal forces her to come up with a dangerous plan that could cost her her own life. If she succeeds, it would give her the ultimate revenge. Is she willing to risk her career—moreover, her own life—to fulfill her plan of revenge, or will she forgive those who know no mercy when it comes to ruin or even taking her life? That question cannot be answered lightly.

Autor

I came into this troubled world during the early morning hours of June 17, 1950, in the city of Budapest, Hungary. I was the first and last child of my 41-year-old mother and my father who was 45 years old at the time of my birth. As I did not know any better, I could not possibly understand that we were living in poverty, as I was growing up with loving parents and there was always a bite to eat. My childhood was poor and saddened with tragedies. As a six-year-old child I witnessed the bloody 1956 revolution and received the first taste of true prejudice by those of whom I thought liked us, yet turned against my family. That tragedy did not match the untimely death of my beloved father when I was not yet seven years old, on February 14, 1957. My mother remarried in 1959 and our financial situation was upgraded from poverty to poor. After finishing elementary school I made a decision to earn money as soon as possible to ease our financial situation and I enrolled in a two-year business college (high school diploma was not required). I received my Associate Degree in 1966 and I began to work as a 16-year-old certified secretary/bookkeeper. During the same period I began my high-school education, which I completed while working full-time and attending night school. I discovered my love for writing when I was 11 years old after a movie that my childhood friend and I saw in the movie theater. We were not pleased with the ending and Steven suggested that I should write a different ending that we both liked. Voila, a writer was born. With my familys encouragement, I entered a writing contest given by a youth oriented magazine and to my genuine surprise, I won second price. My desire to live in a free country and to improve my life was so great, that in 1972, leaving everything, including my aging parents behind, I managed to escape from Hungary during a tour to Austria, (then) Yugoslavia and Italy. I spent almost nine long months in a rat infested refugee camp, located Capua, Italy, while I waited for official permission to immigrate to the country of my dreams, to the USA. In 1975 I met and married a wonderful man, my husband Guy. Thanks to his everlasting patience, he assisted me in my task of learning the English language. He is truly my partner for life and I remain forever grateful to him for standing by me in some tough times. It is difficult for me to describe my love for writing. I cannot think of a bigger emotional joy for an author than to see a published novel in somebodys hand and to see a story come alive on the screen. I yearn to experience that joy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9781543466225
• ISBN-10: 1543466222
• Artikelnr.: 50518639