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    Breathe Not the Sins of Others
    Breathe Not the Sins of Others
    Breathe Not the Sins of Others
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    Breathe Not the Sins of Others

    By Stephen D. Dighton

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    At the beginning of the her shift, Paula Rose McKenzie RN asks herself why shes still working nights in the county jail after twenty-five. She could have retired a year ago to tend her garden and travel with her husband. Yet, here she is giving CPR to someone most people would say doesnt deserve the time of day, much less a second chance at life.

    During the next--and worst--three days of her life, she will question her decision to stay with ever increasing wonder as she deals with two suicides and one attempt, accusations of negligence, a Grand Jury investigation, and a new, irrationally hostile boss.

    For support and assistance, she turns to her husband and their Bahai community. Their counsel helps her deal with all the turmoil that surrounds her, but they cannot help her on her fourth and final day when she can only hope her skill as a nurse and the lessons taught her by the Bahai Faith will keep her alive.

    "Breathe Not the Sins of Others" introduces something new to the suspense genre--faith. Its heroine is an ordinary person with no unusual skills who does the most exceptional things in the most extraordinary circumstances--she prays and lives by the rules, even when doing so may mean her death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 27, 2000
    ISBN9781462807383
    Breathe Not the Sins of Others
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    Stephen D. Dighton

    The author's multifarious experiences include nineteen years in a Southern California county jail. His career there as a correctional nurse provided him with many stories (some of which are even true and/or publishable) populated by a wide variety of fascinating and arresting characters. He retired, mostly to save his sanity, but also to tell some of those stories. "I think of it as cathartic therapy," he says. He now lives in a forest in Oregon, healing well, now that he has put the final touches a story from his old haunt, the county jail, and writes, teaches, travels, and runs his own software publishing firm. "Ain't retirement great? It's so relaxing."

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