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Set in Revolution-era America, The Messenger features Hannah Sunderland, a young woman who is devastated when her brother is jailed for joining the Colonial cause. Spy Jeremiah Jones sees in Hannah a way to access the prison to obtain valuable information, but Hannah’s Quaker beliefs stand in the way. Nevertheless, Hannah and Jeremiah develop a mutual fondness, even as they become caught in history’s tumultuous churn.

Bringing sunshine to a frozen town, I sought simplicity. But a blizzardy encounter with him became my true tempest. Why rescue me from the storm and then retreat back inside his shell? His past holds secrets; his silence is a story. A gruff demeanor that I aim to crack. Dominant dismissals only stoke my submissive desires to crack his rugged exterior and expose the passionate heart that lies within. Amidst howling winds, passions ignite.

This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating consequences.