Hank Pressman MD

Hank Pressman MD has lived a messy personal life, marred by infidelity, alcoholism and a suprising lack of self awareness. His professional life as a psychiatirst has been unblemished...until now. When he meets a beaten-down young woman, who seems desperate for his help, a downward spiral begins. A spiral that threatens his career, his safety and the lives of those he loves. Murder, blackmail and violent assault force him to make a terrible decision...one that he does not want to make.

In this final installment of the Hank Pressman MD psychological suspense series, Hank wakes in the hospital with no idea of how he got there. Forced to deal with his alcoholism at last, he attends treatment, returns to AA and builds new friendships with two fellow alcoholics. One is Andy, a man who has lost all that is important to him but still finds a way to be kind and hopeful.The other is Elaine, a woman who is lonely since the death of her husband and abandonment by her only daughter. She is looking for happiness where ever she can find it. The three band together to somehow find a new way to live. When her estranged daughter, Wendy, and her young son come back into Elaine's life, she looks to Hank and Andy to help them all adjust. Andy, estranged from his own family, becomes an unlikely role model for Hank, who has never had a family of his own. But Wendy is pursued by her abusive husband who eventually catches up with her and demands that she and thir son leave with him. In the struggle that follows, Hank is shot and Wendy and her son are taken captive by the enraged husband. Hank recovers with Elaine's help and they try to support each other while waitng for word about Wendy. After finally hearing from her, they make a desperte attemp to rescue her and her son. Disasterously, Wendy and her husband both die in the attempt and Elaine and Hank are left to care for their son, Sam. In spite of their mutual grief and pain, Hank and Elaine work together to rebuild thair lives and to give Sam the life he deserves. Hank now has the family he never thought he wanted. To his surprise, a family is just what he needed.

Hank Pressman, a disgraced psychiatrist looking for redemption, finds himself in a tornado ravaged, Midwestern town that needs his help. Unexpectedly, he finds friends, romance and murder in STORM DAMAGE. In the ruins of the small farm community of Amber Creek, a young woman's body is found but she doesn't appear to be a victim of the tornado. Hank agrees to help the police and the local doctor, an attractive divorced woman, to investigate the death. The discovery of three more bodies, buried in shallow graves in the local church cemetery, turns the investigation into the search for a serial killer among the townsfolk. This is the second psychological thriller featuring Dr. Pressman, an alcoholic with a history of marital infidelity and medical misconduct.