Devil's Choice
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A parents worst nightmare. A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter's life, a Devil's Choice.
The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie's daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter who is the joy of both her and her husband's lives.
But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukaemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant. They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found. Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine's own father.
But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.
Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter's life when she knows that even this may be futile.
This is the third novel in "The Old Balmain House" Series. Novel two, Lizzie's Tale,tells the story of Lizzie a girl from Balmain and her struggle to keep her own daughter when pregnant at only 15 and the terrible choices she must make. This book.continues the family's story into a third generation.
Graham Wilson
Graham Wilson lives in Sydney Australia. He has completed and published eleven separate books, and also a range of combined novel box sets. He is working on two new booksPublished books comprise two series,1.The Old Balmain House Series2.. The Crocodile Dreaming SeriesHe has also written a family memoir. Arnhem's Kaleidoscope ChildrenThe first series starts with a novel called Little Lost Girl, based on an old a weatherboard cottage in Sydney where the author lived. Here a photo was discovered of a small girl who lived and died about 100 years ago. The book imagines the story of her life and family, based in the real Balmain, an early inner Sydney suburb, with its locations and historical events providing part of the story background. The second novel in this series, Lizzie's Tale builds on the Old Balmain House setting, It is the story of a working class teenage girl who lives in this same house in the 1950s and 1960s, It tells of how, when she becomes pregnant she is determined not to surrender her baby for adoption, and of her struggle to survive in this unforgiving society. The third novel in this series, Devil's Choice, follows the next generation of the family in Lizzie's Tale. Lizzie's daughter is faced with the awful choice of whether to seek the help of one of her mother's rapists' in trying to save the life of her own daughter who is inflicted with an incurable disease.The Crocodile Dreaming Series comprises five novels based in Outback Australia. The first novel Just Visiting.is the story of an English backpacker, Susan, who visits the Northern Territory and becomes captivated and in great danger from a man who loves crocodiles. The second book in the series, The Diary, follows the consequences of the first book based around the discovery of this man's remains and his diary and Susan, being placed on trial for murder. The third book, The Empty Place, is about Susan's struggle to retain her sanity in jail while her family and friends desperately try to find out what really happened on that fateful day before it is too late. In Lost Girls Susan vanishes and it tells the story of the search for her and four other lost girls whose passports were found in the possession of the man she killed. The final book in the series, Sunlit Shadow Dance is the story of a girl who appears in a remote aboriginal community in North Queensland, without any memory except for a name. It tells how she rebuilds her life from an empty shell and how, as fragments of the past return, with them come dark shadows that threaten to overwhelm her. Graham has also just written a two part Prequel to this Series. It tells the story of the other main character, Mark, from his own point of view and of how he became the calculating killer of this series.The book, Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children, is the story of the author's own life in the Northern Territory. It tells of his childhood in an aboriginal community in remote Arnhem Land, one of Australia’s last frontiers. It tells of the people, danger and beauty of this place, and of its transformation over the last half century with the coming of aboriginal rights and the discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.Books are published as ebooks by Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo, iBooks and other major ebook publishers. Some books are available in print through Amazon Create Space and Ingram SparkGraham is currently writing a new novel, "Risk Free'. It is a story about corporate greed and how a company restructures to avoid responsibility for the things it did and the victims it leaves in its wake.Graham is in the early stages of a memoir about his family's connections with Ireland called Memories Only Remain. He is also compiling information for a book about the early NT cattle industry, its people and its stories.Graham writes for the creative pleasure it brings him. He is particularly gratified each time an unknown person chooses to download and read something he has written and write a review - good or bad, as this gives him an insight into what readers enjoy and helps him make ongoing improvements to his writing.In his non writing life Graham is a veterinarian who work in wildlife conservation and for rural landholders. He lived a large part of his life in the Northern Territory and his books reflect this experience.
Read more from Graham Wilson
The Old Balmain House Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClimbing Down: Long distance walks in the Scottish, Welsh and English hills in manageable chunks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGilt Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBelonging Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Business and Government: Methods and Practice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrapped Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGirl in an Empty Cage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpirit of a Crocodile: Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Books 1 & 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLost Girl Diary Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Riding the Whirlpool Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPossession Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInside Looking Out Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptive Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld House in Balmain Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrocodile Child Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChild of an Unknown Past Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld Balmain House Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNowhere Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhirlwind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrocodile Child: Breaker MB Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReturn of the Breaker Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Devil's Choice
Related ebooks
Devil's Choice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDevil's Choice: Old Balmain House, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChild of an Unknown Past Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLizzie's Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTorn Hearts Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Running From My Shadow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Perfect Lie Sampler Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Right Kind of Perfect Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIllicit Desire Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The What If Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Searchlight Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSweet Recovery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Busting Out of an Ordinary Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSweet Eternity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBig Boy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life of Virginia Wargenheimer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrave: This Lesbian Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ladies of Loretto Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hello: Hello series, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThing Fifteen: Diary of a Serial Killer, #3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNormal? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIt's All About me and a few Others Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChanging Stripes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeople Like Me Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvisible Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memoirs of a Vampire Countess: Lilly... Lair of a Vampire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThat Which is Unexpected Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recital of the Dark Verses Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Black Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsider: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Devil's Choice
0 ratings0 reviews