SECOND NATURE
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Allison Walker tilted her head back and sniffed the air as she stepped into the dimly lit salon. Just the usual boat smells: oiled woods, a little salt, the mildest hints of styrene and diesel. She checked her watch. It was 7:15 and, as always, she had arrived a little before the agreed time to set things up. Her prospect would be along soon. Allison sometimes showed yachts early in the morning before typical work hours, but only when she knew enough about the potential buyer to feel safe being alone in a marina with little or no activity. This guy seemed fine, at least from his online corporate profile and the two short phone conversations they’d had. A little odd maybe, but no threat. Allison opened the blinds along the starboard side of the salon and glanced out. Still gray and drizzly. She walked forward and up to the pilothouse to bring the vessel to life. Warmly glowing electronics always seemed to encourage buyers, she felt, and her own live-aboard experience reinforced this. Unless she was trying to sleep, Allison found a dark, quiet vessel a bit unnerving, even ominous at times. Dead in the water.
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Allison Walker is an enigma. It seems that the bright young owner of Rain City Yachts has another side to her personality–one irresistibly drawn to the field of medicine. Allison is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and committed to mandatory participation in a clinical trial at a prestigious psychiatric institute. But when she discovers her own misdiagnosis and the true source of her medical knowledge, she learns something even more disturbing: the institute’s executives are hiding deadly side-effects from the FDA and Allison is the only patient left alive with enough knowledge to expose them.
About the Author
Don Thompson received a degree in Applied Physics and Information Science from UCSD in 1973. He enjoyed a career in software development, then left the corporate world in 2000 to pursue his love of writing. He is the author of three young adult novels and now Second Nature, an adult medical suspense novel. Don lives with his wife Donna in Woodinville, Washington. They have two grown children.