Synopses & Reviews
In southern California, a young Mayan boy with a blue-crescent-moon tattoo on his chest dies mysteriously. In central America, a puzzling illness is spreading among tribal villages. And soon—very soon—Luke McKenna, a pediatric E.R. physician in Los Angeles, will discover the link between these events and demons from his dark past. The secrets that haunt Luke are about to pull him and the woman he loves into a terrifying house of mirrors. The realm of science and the realm of death are colliding with devastating force, and the stakes couldn't be any higher—the future of the human species.
Time is running out, and only by reawakening the ghost of Luke McKenna's past can they discover the truth.
Synopsis
Investigating the mysterious death of a young Mayan boy with a blue-crescent moon tattoo on his chest, pediatric E.R. physician Luke McKenna discovers that the death is linked to an illness spreading through the tribal villages of Central America and to the demons of his own dark past, secrets that bring him and the woman he loves face to face with a nightmare. A first novel. Original.
About the Author
Philip Hawley, Jr. is a general pediatrician in Los Angeles, California. In writing Stigma, he drew on his experience working among remote Mayan tribes in Central America.