There are just so many conversations these days about
immigrants and even more mistrust of certain groups. Yes, I admit
whole-heartedly that I wanted to build that particular hot topic into my EMS
suspense Hyphema.
Hyphema is the second EMS (Emergency Medical
Services) suspense that I wrote; the first EMS novel is Final Sin. Matt Garratti, Hyphema’s
hero, was introduced to my readers as a sort of supporting character in Final Sin (as the best friend and
riding partner to the heroine Julie), but he refused to let me type The End on
his story when I finished Final Sin. He convinced me that he is actually a pretty interesting guy and certainly
worthy of a few words.
Enter Sudah, (she was never seen in Final Sin but she was mentioned near the end of the book). Sudah was
born and raised in Pakistan and a practicing Muslim. She fell in love with Matt.
It was a mixed-marriage (Muslim and Christian). While she hadn’t achieved her
United States citizenship in Hyphema she
was in the process of studying for it.
With their infant son in tow Sudah follows Matt down south so
that he can follow his dream job of being a flight medic. And that’s when
things begin to happen, people look at her with suspicion, and when crimes
happen (to others as well as Matt’s family) there are those who don’t trust her.
There are those, even among Matt’s new work family, who cannot separate any
Muslim from the terror attack of 2001.
I try to show that there is good and evil in all sides, and I
try to demonstrate both the acceptance and the prejudice against all immigrants
to our country. Hyphema won the Dec
9, 2011 Friday Book Cover Vote on the Shades
of Love website and was recommended in the book Summer
Reading: 2012 Blue Ribbon Selection published by the Ewen Prime
Co. EMSWorld
posted about Final Sin and Hyphema.
Hyphema: Bleeding in the eye caused
by trauma…
Matt Garratti, a paramedic from New York, moves his wife and
son to North Carolina to work at his dream job as a flight medic. Pakistani
born Sudah, his wife, receives frosty stares and insensitive comments from
their new neighbors... Matt wonders if he is pursuing his dream or bringing his
family into a nightmare from which they may never wake.
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