To love someone is a precious experience that comes along only once in a lifetime, or, is it? For child prodigy and brilliant, young doctor, Deanna Kearney this seems to be the case. In Doctored, by K’Anne Meinel, the main character, Deanna falls in love while in Africa on assignment with Doctors Without Borders. This relationship fails and life throws one challenge after another at Dr. Kearney. Against the odds, Deanna comes through these challenges with focus and strength of character allowing her to become an infectious disease specialist and to take the reins of her family’s pharmaceutical company.
Flash forward ten years. Nurse Madison MacGregor, a recently divorced mother of two, begins receiving anonymous floral arrangements at work: Birds of Paradise, Proteas, African violets. Each and every flower acts as a reminder for Madison of her time in Africa. Who is sending her these flowers? Madison has shared with no one the secrets from her past.
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Living in the harsh and often dangerous conditions in war-torn Africa, stress, high pressure, and close living conditions drove these two young women into each other’s arms. Facing memories of their tumultuous, yet forbidden love affair from a decade ago plunges Madison into a cascade of self-reflection and doubt. Can she again explore this forbidden part of her sexuality? Can she be brave enough to weather the gossip and scorn of friends and family and again embrace her one true love? In Doctored, Meinel brings to light the struggles of these women who want a second chance at