title: Illness as Initiation: An Unlikely Heroine's Journey
author:  Jann McGuire D. Min 
description: Illness as Initiation: An Unlikely Heroine's Journey is a memoir of the author's passage to health from Stage III non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1999-2000. Confronted with this diagnosis and told to get her affairs in order, Jann McGuire marshals medical, community and spiritual resources to ensure her wellbeing: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
zlib_text: There is no way to escape Dead River…and a killer is waiting
  A contagious virus has rocked the small, snow-covered town of Dead River, Wyoming. And
  time for a cure is running out. But sick patients and a community quarantine is just the beginning
  of nurse Gemma Colton’s troubles.
  The arrival of Dr. Rafe Granger triggers memories from her past: a high school crush…
  unfulfilled desires. Even Rafe’s outward persona—cool, unaffected—is a thin veil for his
  yearning. They must suppress temptation to focus on finding a cure. But someone else is
  watching them. Someone else has other plans for the town.
  
  “You’re an incredibly sexy woman. Men want you. Men have always wanted you. Doctors,
  construction workers, chefs, waiters and pretty much everyone who knows you sees you’re a
  wonderful woman. Don’t let one jerk spoil it for every guy out there who wants a shot with you.”
  Was that what she had been doing? Jackson had hurt her, and to date, he was the one significant
  romantic relationship in her 