title: Cadavers and Cocktails: a collection of true stories from dark to light
author:  Jill Stodola 
description: A well written collection of short stories about human suffering. Emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Rare disease GVHD, fighting the fight, from caregiver, patient advocate, to widow. An unexplained accident. New love, world travel. self transformation through faith, family and good friends.good friends. The book is brutally honest and demands to be read cover to cover.
zlib_text: > also by Lisa Unger
  
  > > > > > Heartbroken (forthcoming)  
  > Darkness, My Old Friend  
  > Fragile  
  > Die for You  
  > Black Out  
  > Sliver of Truth  
  > Beautiful Lies  
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  > writing as Lisa Miscione
  
  > > > > > Twice  
  > The Darkness Gathers  
  > Angel Fire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  Copyright © 2005 by Lisa Miscione  
  Preface copyright © 2012 by Lisa Unger  
  Excerpt from Darkness, My Old Friend © 2011 by Lisa Unger
  
  All rights reserved.  
  Published in the United States by Broadway Paperbacks, an imprint of the Crown
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  [www.crownpublishing.com](http://www.crownpublishing.com)
  
  Broadway Paperbacks and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal,