Hello
lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Barbara Ebel, M.D., and her
new book, “Outcome”! For other stops on
her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any
of the images in this post.
Be sure to make
it to the end of this post to enter to win a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble
Gift Card! Also, come back daily to
interact with Barbara and to increase your chances of winning!
Thanks for
stopping by! Wishing you lots of luck in
this fabulous giveaway!
Outcome
by Barbara Ebel, M.D.
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GENRE:
Medical and Historical Fiction
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BLURB:
Fierce weather
stalks Karen Puno and her dog, Putt-Putt, as they flee their home and reach the
barrier island’s bridge where both their destinies change. Karen is about to
give a woman named Jennifer Barns a gift that she’s been praying for … a new
liver.
As a cascading
medical crisis begins, it interlocks the lives of Karen and Jennifer’s
college-aged children, an anesthesiologist, a crafty surgeon, and a feisty
pilot involved with the organ harvest procurement.
Will Jennifer
live through the heart-stopping surgical tension in the O.R.? Will Putt-Putt
find shelter from the devastating storm and circumvent the horrific events that
befall him? From tragedy to triumph, Outcome is an intense, heart-wrenching,
and climactic novel.
*****
Has it been a
long time since a book made you cry, or cheer, or make you regret finishing the
last page?
If it has, then
put OUTCOME on your reading list. It’s
an emotionally-charged novel about the families, health-care team, and pilot
involved with a liver transplant. Keep a box of tissues within reach. You’ll
also need them for the heartbreaking yet glorious plight of the donor’s dog who
goes missing in the original disaster.
*****
This
is a totally new edition of Outcome which was first published in 2011.
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EXCERPT
TWO:
A
feeling of uncertainty and alarm mounted up in the medium-sized dog as grains
of sand blew across the dune and pelted the aluminum shutters on the face of
the house. Putt-Putt had been scared before, but never like this. Not only did
his instincts tell him that over the last few days the atmospheric pressure,
the winds, the surf, and the growing darkness had grown unnatural and that now
something was vastly wrong with the weather, but also Karen, his master,
scurried everywhere and with such haste and busyness that she barely glanced at
him.
Normally,
he liked to lie on a rug or the carpet inside his open crate. But well into
this night and the early morning hours, he preferred to stay on the cold tile
floor before the hallway entrance to the basement steps. That was the best spot
to stay out of Karen’s way as she ran up and down the steps, carrying things
down, but not back up, and to keep his paw on the pulse of what she was doing,
wondering what her increased activity meant.
The
furious shaking and blowing against the house intensified as the hours ticked
by. The unstable situation made his
blood speed and his heart race, and also increased his need to urinate. He got
up once and circled by the main side door to give Karen his usual signal. After
a half hour, to no avail, he went back to his previous perch; she had never
ignored his cues before.
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AUTHOR
BIO:
Barbara's
Ebel's writing
draws heavily from her experience as an anesthesiologist. As a physician,
speaker, and former chemist, she sprinkles credible medicine into the
background of her fiction where plots and vivid characters take center stage
and her O.R. scenes shine.
She penned the
Dr. Danny Tilson novels before the Annabel Tilson novels DEAD STILL and DEADLY
DELUSIONS. Her Dr. Danny Tilson novels have received a multitude of accolades
including but not limited to: Collateral Circulation was the National Indie
Excellence Award 2015 Finalist for medical thrillers and Operation Neurosurgeon
was the top finalist for best-selling medical mystery books in 2012. (Best
Selling Books' blog announced on PR Buzz Press Release Wire, Chicago, IL).
You may find
more information about her and her books at:
Her twitter
handle is: @barbaraebel
In addition to
her adult writing, she has illustrated and penned a children's book series
called Chester the Chesapeake. The books developed during her philanthropic
visits with her therapy dog, Chester. The dog books continue to inspire adults
and children alike. Along with her husband and four pets, 'Doctor Barbara'
lives in a wildlife corridor in middle Tennessee.
You may find
Chester at:
http://dogbooksforchildren.weebly.com.
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BUY LINKS:
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GIVEAWAY
INFO:
Barbara will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and
Noble Gift Card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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