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In this third medical thriller by award-winning author and practicing physician Darden North, human reproductive tissue becomes a fatal commodity.
In Fresh Frozen, a young policeman and his tormented wife fail miserably to produce a family, finding themselves outcasts in the renewed baby boom sweeping the United States. However, there is one last hope for them: a catalogue of human embryo and egg donors peddled by a woman whose standards are easily dismissed for the right price.
Pursuing their futile attempts to become parents has nearly cost the wife her life and pushed the couple to the brink of bankruptcy. This purportedly last chance for Wesley and Carrie Sarbeck to satisfy their place as parents in Middle America unknowingly tosses them in the midst of a grisly murder plot, the world of Hollywood celebrities, and a heist of freshly frozen human embryos.
The lives of Sarbeck, international superstar Allyn Saxton, and southern socialite Cheryl Choice unwittingly collide at the Van Deman Institute, a state-of-the-art infertility treatment center housed in what was once a decaying building complex just north of Jackson, Mississippi. While Tinker Murtagh, an Internet voyeur and thief conducts his surveillance, each of the three women has her own reason for entering the Institute.
However, as a result of subjecting herself to a concoction of hormones and surgical procedures, one of the three is gruesomely murdered in an intriguing spiral of human greed, mental anguish, and medical science.
Throughout the novel’s fast-paced suspense, North reveals how medical ethics can easily be challenged as he allows even comical, endearing characters to meet tragedy -- tragedy necessary to preserve the deadly secrets of the Van Deman Institute of Reproductive Technology.
ISBN: 0-9771126-3-2 978-0-9771126-3-0
