![]() ![]() She has a loyal and loving husband, a sweet, precocious son, a rewarding career as a doctor helping people in the local clinic. When Emma’s son is diagnosed with a rare cancer, how does her life change?Īfter a troubled and lonely past in which her parents were killed in a car accident and she was raised in foster care, Emma has finally found the happiness and belonging she’s spent her life yearning for in her own family. ![]() And that was the moment I first thought of the story for Do No Harm. Then one day I saw a news story about a podiatrist who’d been arrested for starting an opioid ring and it got me thinking: why do people start selling drugs? Is it money, power, status? What would drive someone to do that? The only thing I believed I could ever understand, given that I’d watched my brother’s descent into addiction, was love. So I’ve known for a long time that I wanted to write a thriller set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic. The experience profoundly changed me and my view of addiction and opioids. Watching someone you love go to war with themselves is a special level of hell. ![]() I’ve spent much of my adult life watching my brother’s addiction to opioids. ![]()
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