by Dave Elliott (Author)

*Grand Prize Short List finalist and fiction category winner, 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards for the Small, Academic, and Independent Press*

Author's Note: All proceeds from The Healer of Wounded Hearts will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders to help them provide humanitarian medical assistance to populations in distress around the world.

How many things can go wrong when retired surgeon Rob Garcia embarks upon a humanitarian medical mission in South Sudan? Dysentery, knee-deep mud, Ebola, cesareans and spear wounds, and, yes, even spitting cobras he can handle.

But Rob wasn't prepared for falling in love again, nor for dealing with the civil war that threatens his hospital, its patients and its dedicated staff.

In this novel inspired by actual events, Rob's ordeal teaches him not only how to provide medical care under hostile and bleak conditions, but it also opens his eyes to a world he's never seen - one which suffers from the afflictions of barbaric social injustice, sexual violence, and lack of access to care.