Friday Book Pick: OVER THE EDGE by Brandilyn Collins

The winner of the Book Of Dreams contest is…
Pamela J.

Congratulations Pamela! I’ll be contacting you by email to find out your mailing address.You will be receiving a new copy of Davis Bunn’s Book of Dreams courtesy of Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

The Book Pick for today is Brandilyn Collins’ Over the Edge. In her newest suspense novel, the weapon of choice for the bad guy is a tiny insect–loaded with lyme disease. This book had my skin crawling but my imagination fully engaged. Collins tackles the medical debates over lyme disease head on and who better to write such a book than someone who struggled personally with Lyme Disease?

Though it tiptoes around being an “issue book,” and a few times it threatened to cross the line into educating rather than entertaining, I never felt like I lost the story. I was intrigued by the characters and carried along by the twists and turns of the plot.

Here is the back cover copy, courtesy of BrandilynCollins.com

Janessa McNeil’s husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a researcher and professor at Stanford University’s Department of Medicine, specializes in tick-borne diseases—especially Lyme. For years he has insisted that Chronic Lyme Disease doesn’t exist. Even as patients across the country are getting sicker, the committee Brock chairs is about to announce its latest findings—which will further seal the door shut for Lyme treatment.

One embittered man sets out to prove Dr. McNeil wrong by giving him a close-up view of the very disease he denies. The man infects Janessa with Lyme, then states his demand: convince her husband to publicly reverse his stand on Lyme—or their young daughter will be next.
But Janessa’s marriage is already rocky. She’s so sick she can hardly move or think. And her husband denies she has Lyme at all.

Welcome to the Lyme wars, Janessa.

You can read an excerpt of Over The Edge here.

Have a great weekend…and watch out for ticks!