As the President marks the first anniversary of federally-run health care with speeches and a parade, D.C. detective Gordon Sand investigates the disappearance of a woman from a parking lot. A few city blocks away, his sister, a health care databank administrator, is privy to inner workings of the mighty Health Care Board and potent behind-the-scenes data that rank people by level of importance. Ninety minutes to the north, in sleepy Dorsey Pennsylvania, Gordon’s physician brother observes the steady decline of his patients’ health services. From different vantage points they are witnessing evidence of the same noxious collusion, rising at the juncture of power and self-interest.

Set Apart is pure fiction. But it could happen tomorrow, it could happen next year. It could be the stuff of future headlines – if somebody ever figures it out.

This debut novel, written by a former federal government information systems specialist, is a deceptively chilling tale too plausible to ignore – a timely tale of corruption and moral perversion that could be a threat to us all. It will leave you wondering, after you’ve turned the last page, whether it could really happen, whether it’s happening even now to someone, somewhere.