Only Women Bleed

As an adopted child, college student Jessica Walters had often pondered her true beginnings. Her most creatively imagined scenarios, however, had not come close to the truth revealed to her on her twenty-first birthday: Jessica's biological mother had aborted her.

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In ONLY WOMEN BLEED, Jessica Walters learns that she is one of four fetuses to have survived late-term abortion procedures due to the efforts of a small conspiracy of medical professionals, including her beloved aunt, Rose. In the harrowing months following this life-altering news, Jessica must learn to find her own way, her first test being the death of her dear aunt and the responsibility of caring for the mentally disabled son that Rose leaves behind.

Jessica's increasing curiosity about her biological parents soon leads to a chance meeting that again alters her life's course. As the truth about the abortees becomes public knowledge, Jessica finds herself far removed from the simple life she had once known, and on the run from the media and the anonymous threats being made against her. A violent confrontation with the unlikely source of those threats, along with the discovery of yet another shocking truth from the past, threaten to sever her increasingly tenuous grip on sanity.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 291 pages

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