Rescue Man

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Will Thompkins is fearless in the ERhe can sink his hands wrist-deep into the wound of an accident victim and wrestle down a crazed addict without flinchinguntil his parents are killed in a fiery crash and hes left to raise two orphaned siblings. Riddled with pain and convinced the world is no longer safe, he moves back into the Berkeley home of his youth and dives into parenting the only way he knows howcommando. At his side is his boyhood friend, Lee, who sheds his bat-shit crazy stripper girlfriend to help his friend raise two small children and stitch up his own gaping wounds.

Will battles his wealthy grandmother, aching to take custody of her dead sons youngest children, a pre-nup signed by his younger brother that threatens the whole family, and a love life littered with failed relationships. Then Samantha Parrish lands in his ER. She reconnects him to the charmed galaxy of Berkeley in which they all orbit and offers Will one last chance for redemption. But he can only be saved if he can banish the specter of his parents death.

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Pamela Patterson is a former adjunct professor of English Literature and writing, who left teaching to spend a decade working as a Washington D.C. foreign policy analyst. She eventually returned to academic life at the University of California in Berkeley, a place she confesses to be irrationally fond of. She's a contributor to the Mark Twain Papers Project at the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, Tao House. Rescue Man is her first novel.