Critical Condition — Peter Clement

Stricken by a brain hemorrhage, renowned geneticist Dr. Kathleen Sullivan is rendered completely paralyzed ... but still utterly aware--a prisoner inside her own body. She is rushed to a Manhattan hospital, as her lover, ER chief Richard Steele, watches and waits for a miracle. Placed in the hands, and at the mercy, of revered Chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Tony Hamlin, Kathleen descends into a waking nightmare. Powerless to resist the sinister stem cell experiments she is subjected to and unable to cry out for help, she must fight desperately to communicate her tortured, trapped thoughts to Steele--before her tormentors can carry their bizarre and potentially lethal work to its harrowing completion... .