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When Cara, a statistician at the Center for Disease Control, loses a childhood friend to suicide and learns he was a gambling addict, she suspects a connection. Buried in the CDC archives, she finds her suspicion confirmed: a link between suicide and online gambling addiction was noted years ago. Why was this hidden from public view? Cara wants answers and risks her job to get them. Soon, she finds herself immersed in a tangle of corruption and greed extending far beyond anything she could have imagined, as the forces that have worked to keep this hidden will stop at nothing to keep it secret.…mehr

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When Cara, a statistician at the Center for Disease Control, loses a childhood friend to suicide and learns he was a gambling addict, she suspects a connection. Buried in the CDC archives, she finds her suspicion confirmed: a link between suicide and online gambling addiction was noted years ago. Why was this hidden from public view? Cara wants answers and risks her job to get them. Soon, she finds herself immersed in a tangle of corruption and greed extending far beyond anything she could have imagined, as the forces that have worked to keep this hidden will stop at nothing to keep it secret. In the high stakes game of corporate greed and government corruption, can Cara beat the odds and win?
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Becky has a PhD in Biochemistry from Boston University, and worked as a research scientist before raising two boys and opening a yoga studio which she ran for 15 years. She has co-written a book with her sister, Phyllis Bronson "Moods, Emotions, and Aging: Hormones and the Mind-body Connection" and compiled her mother's memoirs after her mom passed away ?A Life Well Lived: Memoirs of a Woman Who Loved Life.? In 2018, Becky traveled to Africa to visit her son, a Peace Corps volunteer living in a remote African Village. "When North Becomes South" was born out of that trip and is Becky's first work of fiction.?