The Antidote -- A Novel

It is 1993. On the campus of Stony Pond University, graduate student Emily Trader examines the health and well-being of the local community. What does it mean that so many Americans are turning to alternative treatments to heal their ills? As the AIDS epidemic extends its reach and science falls back to the trenches, a firewalker comes to Stony Pond. Can Philip Dowser really restore the suffering to wholeness? And who will follow him onto the coals to find out?