Bøger af Betty Kuffel

Dr. Kelly McKay survived a plane crash that killed her father and compelled her to become an ER physician. At age twenty-eight, she is close to completing her medical training when a serial killer prowls near the Seattle hospital where she works. Challenging struggles to save stabbing victims in a busy university trauma center tax her physical and mental resolve to be hired for a prized position upon completion. In the face of grueling competition, jealousy, and exhaustion, Kelly is placed on probation, a move that could end her career. But these worries pale when she becomes the killer's next target.

Peer inside the mind of violent child molester Nathanael Bar-Jonah.Personal coded writings, life-long behaviors and victim testimony reveal how he operated and the difficulties law enforcement experienced stopping him. Eyes of a Pedophile follows Bar-Jonah's evolution from religious beginnings to hunting children, being investigated for child abduction and cannibalism, and finally being imprisoned for life.Extensively researched medical and psychological details explain what is known about child predators and show you how to recognize pedophile behavior and protect children.

Grieving twelve-year-old Anna is left without a protector after her mother dies. This 76,000 word novel reveals the physical pain and horror of her life of terror in a desolate Montana town with an abusive father. Papa is a respected church deacon and dependable railroad worker, but a different man behind closed doors. Anna's mother had tried to prepare her young daughter as death from cancer approached, warning Anna to avoid the same fate she had experienced. But there was no escape, Anna was trapped. Looking beautiful and loved in public but tortured at home, Anna struggles to survive her abuse. Papa controls, isolates her, and threatens death if she tells the truth. Her plan to escape turns desperate with more lies and violence when, within a year, she is pregnant. Papa takes Anna to a Catholic home for girls in another state. She returns months later with a baby. Papa adopts the child calling her cousin Julie, telling townspeople she is a family orphan. Edith, an elderly woman hired by Papa, helps Anna learn mothering skills and cares for the baby when Anna returns to school as a seventh grader. The nightmare of motherhood and protecting her little girl strengthens Anna's resolve to flee. Her portrayed resilience and strength may empower other victims to escape abuse and find help to begin recovery.

A prion pandemic threatens the world as brilliant young researcher Dr. Callie Archer vows to find a cure for the aggressive variant of mad cow disease that killed her father.Like unstoppable super-bugs, the deadly prion proteins infect livestock and wild game, threatening world food supplies. Unknowing humans who eat infected meat become paranoid, violent and die horrible deaths.Federal authorities isolate Dr. Archer's primate research project at an NIH high-risk laboratory in the mountains of Montana for protection from radical animal rights activists. While she risks her life to stop the catastrophic disease that could prove fatal to millions, a sexist director, sabotaging cohort, and a handsome rancher obstruct her progress.Dr. Archer closes in on a cure, but murderous activists penetrate her lab, steal infected animals, and nearly kill her. As the disease spreads in ranching and hunting country, authorities suppress public information to save the country from economic disaster.

Flight Nurse Liz Elliot quits her Arizona job after a medical helicopter piloted by her lover crashes in the desert killing him and two close friends. Vowing to never fly in helicopters again, she flees to Alaska to escape her grief and recover in a safe location far from the desert turmoil. When she interviews for an ER nursing job in Anchorage, a male nurse bursts in and quits his flight job, abandoning the flying village doctor Paul Lasher, leaving him without a nurse. Dr. Lasher needs immediate help for an emergency flight to a remote location for a woman in preterm labor. Liz accepts the sudden challenge of flying in a small plane to the wilderness emergency with the attractive stranger. High over rugged terrain, she wonders if she's lost her mind. Instead, she is about to lose her heart and possibly her life.

Even Alaska isn't far enough away to escape. Dr.Kelly McKay flees to Alaska after surviving a near fatal attack. Kelly believes she's safe in the wilds where she hikes and flies on search missions. But old fears surge back when she's targeted by a stalker. Is it one of her difficult ER patients, her roommate's lover, or someone from her past? Can Kelly survive long enough to find out?

This reference includes comprehensive information on heart disease in women and men, common symptoms, many heart ailments, strokes, diagnostic methods, medications, proven dietary supplements, Mediterranean and plant-based menu options, laboratory studies and physician visit recommendations.With the right knowledge and actions, the number one cause of death in women and men is preventable. If you are healthy and want to stay that way, or if you are overweight, have diabetes or heart disease, this health guide provides the science behind coronary artery disease with actions to improve health and longevity.Because early heart disease is evident in overweight children, Dr. Kuffel has also included information on how to keep kids healthy.

In Deadly Pyre, Dr. Kelly McKay struggles to finish her final year of ER residency at Seattle's Harbor Medical Center. She is close to completing the medical training when a serial killer prowls near the hospital. Kelly already faces grueling competition, jealousy, and exhaustion. Then, she's placed on probation that may end her career. But that worry pales when the killer begins to stalk her.Can she survive?Deadly Pyre is Book One in a medical thriller series.