Description
What if you could pay someone else to get sick for you? When her teenage brother’s kidneys begin to fail, graduate researcher Nina Reeves runs out of options. Transplants take years. Money runs out faster. And the system offers no mercy for families who can’t afford to wait. Then she discovers the Medical Proxy Program. For enough money, someone can undergo treatment in your place. Chemotherapy. Experimental trials. The pain, the risk, the long-term damage - outsourced to bodies that need the cash more than they need safety. Nina signs the contract. What follows is not heroism, but endurance. Twelve weeks of poison. A body slowly breaking down. A system that calls desperation “consent” and suffering “data.” When another proxy dies and the truth begins to surface, Nina is forced to confront a brutal question: How many lives justify the destruction of one? PROXY PATIENT is a harrowing, near-future science-fiction novel about medical ethics, economic coercion, and the cost of survival in a world where pain can be bought and sold. It is a story about love pushed past its limits - and the price paid when the system decides whose bodies are expendable.
About the Author
Owen Black is the author of "PROXY PATIENT" and other works.
