Birthright

In 1969 a woman is admitted into the hospital in critical condition after having been the victim of a drunken driving accident. It was only after having undergone extensive testing including several x-rays to determine the nature and scope of her injuries that her pregnancy was discovered. Though under normal circumstances the woman would’ve been healthy and recovered well if not completely from a rather broad spectrum of injuries her bruised and battered body is laid waste as the child within her grows and develops at an astounding rate. When the doctor is forced to perform a caesarean section and deliver the baby several weeks premature the woman bleeds out and dies and everyone believes the baby will too. In present day Colorado adult Raine Donnelly lives the kind of quiet, solitary, uncomplicated existence of which no self-respecting adult can fathom the value, much less handle with any degree of equanimity. When he has a dream that begins to haunt him and strange, frightening things start to happen that he can’t control or predict like the radio on the kitchen counter that turns on by itself or the spinning vortex of ordinary toiletries in the bathroom followed by draining exhaustion, he seeks a doctor’s advice. During the time that Raine is waiting to see the doctor as he called for an appointment in the middle of the night he conducts a search of his home and property hoping that he might find some clues that would explain what he was seeing and what was happening and why. While he doesn’t find anything that might shed any light on what’s been going on, he does discover a whole network of surveillance equipment, i.e. cameras hidden throughout his home and on the property, one of which he hides before he cleans up and goes to the doctor. Dr. Clifford Maxwell listens to Raine’s story and then recommends that Raine see a specialist in Denver, as the doctor believes that Raine has a brain tumor and is hallucinating and having black outs that account for the extra-long naps and the unbelievable weariness he’s experiencing. He wants Raine to get an MRI to know for sure and refers Raine to a colleague of his, Dr. Lynn Calloway to obtain the needed tests. When Raine gets back home from his doctor’s appointment all the cameras with the exception of the one he hid had all disappeared and Raine decides to leave for Denver ahead of his appointment and stay the night there. When he’s leaving he’s so absorbed in his own thoughts he’s almost hit by the snipers bul

Year

2010

Language

English

Publisher

Createspace

Editions

1

Pages

538

ISBN

9781453786079

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