She wanted to give this eclectic man and his unique island half a chance if only they would stop hurling spitballs at her. Certainly, while the dead children, mad scientist, and tasered woman had made for a rough start-if one ignored the monkey in a test tube, then Homer's office, this lovely garden, and the man himself might qualify as quite likeable.Dr. Claudia Vlakia, a maverick cardiac surgeon, is summoned to a secretive Mediterranean island run by an enigmatic dictator. There, she discovers a high-tech clinic fueled by illegal organ harvesting. With her goddaughter's life hanging in the balance, Claudia must navigate a world of moral ambiguity, and choose between her revolutionary bionic heart technology, a black-market transplant, and the dark secrets of a man who offers both damnation and salvation.Her Artificial Heart is a stand-alone novel in the Paths Unknown series about women adventurers. In the tradition of Michael Crichton and H.G.Wells, this 85,000-word bio-thriller is a cautionary tale about scientists who play God. A journey that questions whether the pursuit of greatness inevitably leads to moral and ethical corruption. Lee Kaiser is a Canadian author who writes women's fiction suspense and thrillers. Her latest stand-alone in the series Paths Unknown is a bio-thriller, Her Artificial Heart, set in Malta. All three novels follow a plucky group of women adventurers across the globe. While the debut Sutra of the Pearl placed her characters in India's underworld, her second, Towers of the Hungry Ghosts, was set in a castle in Romania. All three novels are available in both ebook and paperback through any bookseller.
