Hurting Your Characters

a writer's guide to describing injuries and pain from the character's point of view

It's 2047, and the more things change, the more politics stays the same.

Zachary Marshall is a brilliant, young, dedicated scientist with a secret in his past, who runs a small genetic testing laborstory with his best friend from college.

When an anonymous sample brought to his lab by the Secret Service tests positive for the gene for psychopathy, his house is bombed and he's framed for his friend's murder, sending him underground and on the run with a rogue agent who has secrets of her own.

Zach's only hope of clearing his name lies in staying alive until he can discover why he's become a target and expose the conspiracy, derailing the campaign of a corrupt presidential candidate in the process.