The Doctor's Challenge — Kerry Mitchell

Young Dr. Ben Grady examined the native girl. She lay motionless, her black skin glistening with sweat. All tests had shown nothing wrong, yet she was clearly dying.

At first Ben had refused to listen to the beautiful hot-tempered anthropologist, Meg Leslie, who told him that the girl was under a witch doctor's curse -- a curse that meant sure death to the girl, and to anyone who tried to interfere.

Dr. Ben Grady had pitted modern medicine against the mysterious power of ancient black magic -- and he was losing. Here in this land of river and rain forest, his skill as a doctor had turned useless -- only his courage as a man remained.