Cassia won the SILVER MEDAL in the 2022 Reader's Favorite Contest in the Medical Thriller category and was a Finalist for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize. A research psychiatrist desperate to save his dying wife. A deeply troubled mental patient. A potent experimental drug. Cassia stands at the center of it all, whispering like mad. Cassia is the story of Dr. Jack Temple—an ambitious young physician working at a state psychiatric hospital—who becomes obsessed with trying to cheat death to save his dying wife. And it is the story of his wife, Wendy, struck down in her prime, and now caught in a web of madness she cannot understand. It's also the story of Dr. Temple's precocious assistant, Lillian Anderson, who is also driven by relentless obsession but for far different reasons ... and it's the story of the ruthless psychopath, Edmund Lasker, who escapes the mental hospital, hellbent on hunting Jack down for his own reasons ... and it's the story of the tenacious Detective who tries to unravel the bewildering events that are rapidly spinning out of control. Most importantly, it is the story of the enigmatic young mental patient, the one called Cassia, the one who whispers to voices only she can hear, the one who might hold the key to saving Wendy's life, the one who might hold the key to saving all their lives.