Psychiatrist Rand Morrissey is faced with a quandary when he is consulted on the baffling case of five-year-old Sienna, who has been suffering from unexplained fainting spells. Then he discovers that Sienna has a half-sister, Chelsa, who has been in a coma since a car accident six years earlier, something the girls’ manipulative mother Melanie Cantrell has kept secret.
When she is questioned under hypnosis, Sienna reveals things only Chelsa could have known. Rand begins to suspect that Melanie is machinating Sienna’s problems. Or is she? Now Rand must overcome his own childhood demons and find a way to save the lives of two half-sisters, inextricably tethered between life and death.
Industry Reviews
"...Goodison incorporates arcane themes of human spiritual rebirth and the Christian theological theory of Limbo into the action, which culminates when Chelsa and Sienna are brought together in the same room. Though the psychic phenomena may be a stretch for some readers, the author does an admirable job of humanizing everything else in her rousing novel, making the entire ordeal an eerie possibility in real life."
"A tightly woven medical thriller fusing justice for abuse victims with the tapped power of the mind."-Kirkus Reviews
"Limboland is the kind of medical thriller on par with Robin Cook and the best of genre writers, holding an ability to grip readers with a variety of compelling personalities and emotions, right from the start. Gripping, packed with powerful characters and motives, and steeped in conundrums, Limboland is a highly recommended medical thriller that provides seat-of-your-pants reading that's hard to put down."- D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
"Goodison has penned an interesting thriller jam-packed with treachery, recriminations, guilt, and guile. All her major characters have locked something away in their pasts that they don't want to revisit but must if there's to be any hope of saving the children they love. The author does a good job of delineating her characters and making it clear that while some are basically good and others creepily bad, none are perfect and none are without their share of secrets. A tendency toward repetitiveness does not materially diminish the intricate way she peels back each layer of the onion to expose secrets that must come to light for the sake of the girls. Some readers might find it difficult to adhere to a willing suspension of disbelief relating to the psychiatrist's diagnosis and proposed cure, but if they're sufficiently compelled to see how this latticework of lies plays out, they'll be rewarded in the end." -J. Kilgore, Sr. Reviewer, US Review of Books