Daughter Bond

After her mother's funeral, Latina psychologist Irene Miral is more determined than ever to make the new PTSD unit she heads at Lakeside Hospital a success. Her mother's haunting legacy of domestic violence and strange perceptual experiences drive Irene's desire to rectify the world for women who have suffered trauma. As she works to restore normalcy to the lives of eight traumatized Hispanic women, she has to fight for her program's survival and the dignity of the women under her care. She did not expect to encounter professional peril in the person of Walter Freile, the entitled and biased supervising psychiatrist.

Hoping to find answers to her mother's perceptual experiences and possibly a link to her patients' flashbacks, Irene accepts an invitation to collaborate on a paranormal research project. She disregards the unconventional aspects of the research and dedicates all her free time to the lab. She and her research partner, David, are convinced their subjects possess a unique gift for telepathic communication. Willing to experiment beyond the established norms of scientific inquiry, they dare to straddle the realms of science and the paranormal. She does not know she is falling in love despite her mother's warnings that men are evil.

Soon, Irene finds herself in an emotional storm. Grappling with the intense feelings she is developing for David and the upheaval at Lakeside, she faces a crossroads in her life's journey. The consequences are unforeseen; the repercussions are staggering.