Neddy Emory and her brother Charles head up Angiras, a family-owned start-up with a radical innovation that will transform patient care for cystic fibrosis. They’re about to go live with a revolutionary life-saving medical device. But they’ve hit a major snag. Critical
research is unraveling and, to their shock and horror, one-by-one, team members are falling mysteriously ill.
Neddy and Charles race to move the project forward, while struggling to keep their employees safe. Failure is not an option. Without the device, their younger brother Daniel will die. But Neddy begins to suspect the company’s innovative research methods are being tampered with. When probed, Charles gaslights her. He refuses to slow down, claiming he is
Daniel’s only hope.
Torn between loyalty to her family and the welfare of the staff, Neddy desperately searches
for the truth. Then the unspeakable happens. A fatality. Charles appears to finally be persuaded. But his next move shocks her, and she realizes: the danger is only beginning. And she is on her own.
Judy Kroll worked for over twenty years in large and small corporations, including four years
in the pharmaceutical industry, as a human resources professional and later as a career
counselor. She provided job search assistance to hundreds of individuals, including physicians,
pharmacists, medical device developers, chemists, and other scientists impacted by mergers
and downsizings. She is a practicing yogi (twenty-three years.) Both corporate experiences as
well as many years ‘on the mat’ inspired her book, Breakthrough. Specifically, in both of these
very disparate worlds, she observed the same phenomenon: the devastation wrought when a
much-respected boss or mentor turns out to be unethical, and one must find a new path forward,
seemingly alone.
She lives in northern New Jersey, and in addition to writing, gardening, and practicing yoga,
Judy co-chairs a not-for-profit conservation organization.
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