Richard Reinking

Without Pity Richard Reinking

David Jenkins is desperate to save his teenage daughter, Olivia, from dying of cancer, but would he go as far as conspiring to commit murder? From author Richard Reinking comes an emotional thriller about the lengths a father will go to cure his only daughter of leukemia. David Jenkins is a single dad, a workaholic malpractice attorney, who is completely devoted to his only child, Olivia. She is a great kid, an extrovert with a talent for acting, a leader in her high school, and has a fighting spirit that serves her well in her upcoming battle. Olivia is diagnosed with leukemia, a cruel twist of fate since she lost her mother to cancer. The conventional treatment is dreadful, and when it fails, Jenkins decides to take Olivia to Dr. Jian Chen's unorthodox, off-the-grid facility for an experimental and ethically questionable new embryonic stem cell procedure. Dr. Chen promises success, though his method has never been tried in humans, but the required donor has a potentially serious risk. Terri Andrews, Jenkins's paralegal and secret lover, hears Olivia needs a donor and volunteers, and neither Jenkins nor Dr. Chen warn her of the dangers involved. David Jenkins knows the truth but ignores it to seek a cure for his daughter-and then Jenkins must face the consequences of that decision, including the risk of devastating effects on Terri Andrews. But Jenkins also knows that Olivia's life is at risk and cancer is brutal, merciless, and without pity.