Reporter Ellie Andrews investigates the sudden death of an athlete who received a kidney transplant at Virginia General Hospital. When other transplant patients at the hospital become ill, Ellie searches for answers. Ellie is not prepared for what happens next. Her brother, Matt, a fellow reporter, is framed for drug possession by local police while investigating the deaths of injured prison inmates.Then the unthinkable happens. Life is snatched from two people closest to Ellie, and organs are harvested from one of them. In a relentless hunt for the truth, Ellie unravels an intricate scheme to sell human organs to the highest bidders. It is a scheme so widespread that it reaches into law enforcement, respected institutions, and her own family. When Ellie becomes the target of the very people she wants to expose, she's forced to make a final choice - risk her life to report the truth or abandon the story.Set in Virginia, BODY MERCHANTS is an eye-opening shocker about an unimaginable crime committed by people blinded by greed. It is also the story of a fearless woman who risks everything to win justice.
About the Author Bossik, Elaine: - ELAINE BOSSIK is a novelist, screenwriter and editor. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from Brooklyn College (CUNY), where she earned BA and MS degrees. After teaching in the New York City school system for several years, she pursued a new career path, first as an advertising copywriter, and then as a medical writer and editor. The idea for Body Merchants grew out of the reality of human organ trafficking in the U.S. and globally, and the big money behind it. Ms. Bossik lives in Florida with her husband and family, where she enjoys Florida's semi-tropical environment and pens her novels. In addition to Body Merchants, she is the author of The Last Victim, a literary romance novel.
