Jack E. Tetirick

The Wind is My Messenger Jack E. Tetirick

Three years after winning an Olympic bronze medal in downhill ski racing, Toni Putnam is preparing to train for the next winter Olympics. As the only heir of an influential Boston family she participates in the dismissal of a scientist who believes he has developed a transplantable virus genetically engineered to be capable of stimulating repair of spinal paralysis.

Through her own willfulness she is injured in Switzerland and suddenly faces life as a paraplegic. She is a resentful and uncooperative patient. A medical student, who initiated a flirtation with her on the way to Switzerland, and described by Toni?s fianc¨¦ as a ?mouthy Italian? tries to convince Toni that the scientist, now in Ohio, should be given a chance to effect a cure. Her family is in vehement opposition.

If she chooses to go on this long dangerous journey, she faces predators of the disabled, a lethal virus, an angry orangutan, and a resentful scientist.

She als finds herself falling in love with the young doctor yet wonders how he can possibly love her in return.