Dr. Claire McCalls life should be settling down. After all, rapist Tyler Crutchfield is awaiting trial in jail. Although Claires genetic testing shows that she carries Huntington Disease, John Cerelli, has asked her to marry him. Her practice is going well. Why, then, do nightmares awaken her, keeping her so terrified that she sleeps with a loaded pistol at her side in All Ill Ever Need?
As nightmares plague her and drive a wedge between her and John, she suspects that her father may have molested her during one of his drunken sprees. Her sessions with therapist, Joanne Phillips, make her wonder if she should confront her father who is dying of Huntingtons. One of the few things hes been able to do is request help in dying. John has other problems as his co-worker, Ami Grandle, becomes obsessed with him. She refuses to accept his engagement to Claire, and John does not know how to deal with the beautiful young woman. When Ami files a complaint with the medical board accusing Claire of euthanizing her stepfather and then rigs a situation at work to look as if John has assaulted her, John nearly loses Claire. Tyler Crutchfields escape from prison endangers Claire and her whole family. He promises to come back to finish what he had started in For the Rest of My Life.
Harry Krauss expertise as a doctor comes across in this medical thriller, All Ill Ever Need. However, its his skill as a writer that gives the story such force. Kraus skillfully piles one problem on top of another for Claire and John, until the reader wonders how Claire can stand one more problem. For that matter, can the reader stand one more problem? During the ordeal, Claire continually returns to verses on trust, such as Isaiah 64:8, to remind herself that she is the clay and God is the potter, and that she can trust Him.
Drawing us deeply into the lives of his characters, Kraus pulls the plotlines together to form a powerful story about learning to trust when all around us falls apart. Debbie W. Wilson, Christian Book Previews.com
