“Amaranth” is the debut novel of Michael Ehrenreich.
He placed his large hand atop
her small one. Felt its utter fragility, its unquestioning pliancy yield before
him. He traced the lay of her hand, threading with his forefinger a translucent
line of blue vein against impossibly white skin, until it intersected a plastic
tube now continuous with flesh.
“Liza,” he whispered, bent low
to her ear. “Liza. I’m so sorry. Not for now. Not only for now, but for all of
the years that brought us here. It’s so easy to let the sorrow trap you. It’s
the easy way out, to mourn forever. It takes courage to continue…”
Description from the publisher:
“When Dr. Bing Denton’s daughter, Liza, becomes involved in a seedy underworld,
it threatens the existence of his already fragile family. Faced with
estrangement from his wife, Rebecca, and the haunting of a distant tragedy, he
must grapple with the loss of his surgeon’s gift and a frightening descent into
madness.
As he struggles to comprehend
the soulless workings of the world, he finds himself increasingly involved with
a former patient. Can Bing save himself and his family, or is it too late?”
“The walls of the waiting room
were a careful cream that had, over time, taken on a smudged appearance, as of
life lived in the shadow of a smokestack...” read
more of the opening chapter.
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