Maryl Millard

Blood Dilemma Maryl Millard

AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME THRILLER WITH A SUPERNATIURAL TWIST: A DEEP DIVE INTO CHAOS AND REDEMPTION, YOUNG LOVE AND MATURE LOVE, AMIDST A DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL. Adoption, at its best, is a loving, thoughtful relationship. At its worst, it's a kidnapping. Addison Marisol Diaz, Ph. D., a Mexican-American Forensic Psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, is also a nationally recognized psychic in criminal cases. From Christmas eve to New Year's Day, two adoptive families find their relationships tested to the limit when they are brought together in an urgently escalating FBI case. A wealthy San Francisco couple, Mike and Ana Doyle, are referred to Addison. The FBI agent in charge of the case believes Addie's experience in adoption counseling and her status as an adoptive parent will help them calm down enough to cooperate with the FBI investigation. When the case escalates, an FBI cartel expert is brought in to lead the investigation into southern Mexico. Addie is asked to join the team, and in coordination with Mexican authorities, they begin to work the case in Oaxaca de Juarez, 2,600 miles from San Francisco. Ramiro, a mysterious independent criminal in Oaxaca, and his wife Adela, a Zapotec from a nearby mountain tribe, become enmeshed in a conflict with a Zeta cartel cell newly established in Oaxaca City. Addison is plunged into the confrontation between Ramiro, the Zetas and the FBI. Her psychic skills ratchet up as the Zetas murder one captive and threaten the survival of Ramiro's son and the Doyles' daughter, in an isolated mountain forest above Puerto Escondido, a beautiful low-budget Riviera on Oaxaca's Pacific coast.