Over the Edge

By Brandilyn Collins

Description:

Torn from the front lines of medical debate and the author's own
experience with Lyme Disease, Over the Edge is riveting fiction, full of
twists and turns—and powerful truths about today's medical field.

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.

Why the author wrote this book:

The idea for Over the Edge came from my own struggle with the nightmare of Lyme Disease and my immersion into the "Lyme Wars", which pits Lyme patients who need medical treatment against doctors who don't want to give it. The story is my trademark Seatbelt Suspense®. Interwoven into the story are details about the disease and the problems with its testing and treatment. Readers of this book will be entertained while reading--and will then walk away with a much better understanding of Lyme Disease and how they can help others who suffer from it.