Intimately Betrayed

Hard Cover, 5.5" x 8.5", Publication date: October, 2009

This man had touched her heart. Alyssa never thought of anyone as ‘just a patient,’ but Matthew was much more than just a patient. She was sure of that…..” Alyssa Tennison–Kippler is a dedicated doctor with a heart for battered women. After losing the love of her life and questioning everything; she manages to overcome the immense pain and seeks to re-establish her life with her young daughter Lisa. When she meets a new patient named Matthew Hunter at the clinic, she becomes alive and has renewed hope of finding true love again. However, as their tumultuous courtship continues, Matthew struggles with a dark side of himself he can’t control.Yet this time, Alyssa finds herself at risk of losing not only the love of her life, but her own life as well.

Intimately Betrayed is Dr. Roxanna P. Platt’s first dramatic romance. Dr. Platt has been an advocate against domestic violence, helping her own patients with issues related to the “battered woman’s syndrome.” Dr. Platt was a victim of the very cause for which she fights now. Intimately Betrayed was originally penned as an outcry for help, but instead became her beacon, spearheading her intense involvement in the subject of domestic violence. As a Family Practice physician with extensive training and experience in women’s issues, she serves on the Council Against Domestic Violence.