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The Body Auction
Would you assume it is safe to have a routine surgery? Healthy young women do not die from an appendectomy, do they? When a group of psychotic physicians are involved don't be so sure.
When Nurse practitioner Layla Matthews awakens in her own coffin, she starts a journey that takes her to "The Body Auction". Here she uncovers an underground nightmare. The business of human trafficking is in the news daily, but a group of physicians have discovered a way to make young women appear dead, then they are taken to a Body Auction. Here a very exclusive clientele can bid on the bodies. Some are purchased for organ donation, others for sexual slavery. Layla was lucky enough to escape, but many do not. Join Layla on this horrific journey that takes her into the multi-million-dollar industry of human tracking and slavery.
The web of depraved physicians reaches around the globe. Layla must travel to find who the head of this horrid business is. As she attempts to save some of the women who are still victims of the auction, the reader will appreciate the true power of women. This action-packed novel will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Body Auction is a medical suspense thriller that will peak the interest of all readers but will especially be of interest to persons in healthcare.
When Nurse practitioner Layla Matthews awakens in her own coffin, she starts a journey that takes her to "The Body Auction". Here she uncovers an underground nightmare. The business of human trafficking is in the news daily, but a group of physicians have discovered a way to make young women appear dead, then they are taken to a Body Auction. Here a very exclusive clientele can bid on the bodies. Some are purchased for organ donation, others for sexual slavery. Layla was lucky enough to escape, but many do not. Join Layla on this horrific journey that takes her into the multi-million-dollar industry of human tracking and slavery.
The web of depraved physicians reaches around the globe. Layla must travel to find who the head of this horrid business is. As she attempts to save some of the women who are still victims of the auction, the reader will appreciate the true power of women. This action-packed novel will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The Body Auction is a medical suspense thriller that will peak the interest of all readers but will especially be of interest to persons in healthcare.
280 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 28, 2018
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February 21, 2020In The Body Auction, author and real-life nurse practitioner Lisa Mathis assumes the pen name of protagonist Layla Matthews, wife, mother, and fictional intensive care nurse in an unsettling story about human trafficking.
The opening scenario is worthy of an Edgar Allan Poe nightmare. Layla wakes up in the dark, numb and weak and unable to move. She can smell flowers. She hears weeping and the tortured voices of her husband and daughter, the sounds of a funeral, loved ones gathered at the side of a casket; and Layla understands where she is.
The escape from her coffin is only the beginning of an exposé of a horrific network of kidnapping, sexual slavery and the black-market sale of human organs. It’s an international business conducted in hospitals, private planes and luxury hotels. The operation involves hundreds of people — physicians, morticians, police, pilots — even tuxedoed waiters carrying silver platters of finger food. The world Mathis paints is surreal and sickening, more so when one is reminded that every detail included here is being re-enacted in the real world today.
Our girl Layla topples out of her coffin into a world of terror and unspeakable acts. While the story unspools, the proverbial plot thickens. Her daughter Aubrey disappears, the new nurse Kaleigh turns out to be an FBI agent, and hospital patients are wheeled into surgery but end up in the morgue. Layla becomes enmeshed in the hunt for the villainous doctors who are peddling human organs and the international buyers and sellers in the sex-slave trade.
Rediscovering the romance and safety in her marriage with her handsome husband Tripp helps center Layla, until something he says rings false. Hours later, Layla’s skin grows cold and she wonders if her beloved husband could be part of the evil schemes. Would he put his own daughter in danger?
Layla ricochets from suspect to victim, trying to piece together enough clues to find the killers and save what victims are still alive. Poolside at a luxurious resort, she encounters a beautiful young woman who secretly confides that she — like Layla — was abducted to be sold. Unlike Layla, she did not escape.
Layla’s efforts to help the FBI find her daughter gets her abducted again and prepped for sale as sex slave or unwitting organ donor. She barely escapes, naked and bloodied, but still determined to find her daughter and help the tragic slave-wife she met.
We trail behind Layla in her quest. She’s indefatigable, fearless and stubborn. In her new role of detective and incipient heroine, she questions herself, her marriage and her job.
The human trafficking industry and human organs black market are both very real and they’re growing. The heinous effects are worldwide, and Mathis’s debut novel is as educational as it is unnerving.
The Body Auction is now available for purchase. Learn more about the author on her BookTrib author page.
The opening scenario is worthy of an Edgar Allan Poe nightmare. Layla wakes up in the dark, numb and weak and unable to move. She can smell flowers. She hears weeping and the tortured voices of her husband and daughter, the sounds of a funeral, loved ones gathered at the side of a casket; and Layla understands where she is.
The escape from her coffin is only the beginning of an exposé of a horrific network of kidnapping, sexual slavery and the black-market sale of human organs. It’s an international business conducted in hospitals, private planes and luxury hotels. The operation involves hundreds of people — physicians, morticians, police, pilots — even tuxedoed waiters carrying silver platters of finger food. The world Mathis paints is surreal and sickening, more so when one is reminded that every detail included here is being re-enacted in the real world today.
Our girl Layla topples out of her coffin into a world of terror and unspeakable acts. While the story unspools, the proverbial plot thickens. Her daughter Aubrey disappears, the new nurse Kaleigh turns out to be an FBI agent, and hospital patients are wheeled into surgery but end up in the morgue. Layla becomes enmeshed in the hunt for the villainous doctors who are peddling human organs and the international buyers and sellers in the sex-slave trade.
Rediscovering the romance and safety in her marriage with her handsome husband Tripp helps center Layla, until something he says rings false. Hours later, Layla’s skin grows cold and she wonders if her beloved husband could be part of the evil schemes. Would he put his own daughter in danger?
Layla ricochets from suspect to victim, trying to piece together enough clues to find the killers and save what victims are still alive. Poolside at a luxurious resort, she encounters a beautiful young woman who secretly confides that she — like Layla — was abducted to be sold. Unlike Layla, she did not escape.
Layla’s efforts to help the FBI find her daughter gets her abducted again and prepped for sale as sex slave or unwitting organ donor. She barely escapes, naked and bloodied, but still determined to find her daughter and help the tragic slave-wife she met.
We trail behind Layla in her quest. She’s indefatigable, fearless and stubborn. In her new role of detective and incipient heroine, she questions herself, her marriage and her job.
The human trafficking industry and human organs black market are both very real and they’re growing. The heinous effects are worldwide, and Mathis’s debut novel is as educational as it is unnerving.
The Body Auction is now available for purchase. Learn more about the author on her BookTrib author page.
May 18, 2019
First time reading this author...amazing
I anxiously await the release of the sequel. The storyline is so realistic; and a fantastic read for those who love suspense.
The book was recommended to me by a stranger, while leaving a medical facility where the book was on display. So glad I took his advice and purchased the Kindle Edition. I couldn’t wait to start reading. The book is well written and difficult not to finish in one sitting. Don’t start reading late in the evening, it will keep you after bedtime.
I anxiously await the release of the sequel. The storyline is so realistic; and a fantastic read for those who love suspense.
The book was recommended to me by a stranger, while leaving a medical facility where the book was on display. So glad I took his advice and purchased the Kindle Edition. I couldn’t wait to start reading. The book is well written and difficult not to finish in one sitting. Don’t start reading late in the evening, it will keep you after bedtime.
December 8, 2022
What would you do if you woke up unable to move, see or speak and realized you were in a coffin at your own funeral? Just find out later that it was all part of an elaborate human trafficking scheme and you were stuck in the middle of it. Find out what Layla does in the epic thriller!!
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