The Dying Room

Step into the dying room. The Death Angel awaits. What victim will be his prey? As a small child lies helpless in a Martinsville hospital clinic in 1937, Young Emma Hankins, fresh from college struggles to understand the visions she has of angels and why patients around her keep dying. Enter handsome Tom Kendall that Emma finds so hard to resist. The young nurse soon realizes that she has gotten caught up in something bigger than the impending death of a child. She's stepped into the dying room of more than one life, and a legend that began in the Civil War.A thrill from start to finish, this historical novel tells the true story of more than one person who lived and died in this rural area in Southwest, Virginia. A few character names have been changed to respect descendants. Many characters bare the names they had while they lived. Only two characters from the novel are still living upon the writing of this book. Although some elements of this tale are fictionalized, the heart of the story is quite real.