If you've read Samuel's first novel, Maggots, then you will recognize the principal characters in Devil's Dew.It continues the story of Eric Laswell. His daughter is now five. Her innocent, but precocious personality involves him in situations which tests and strengthens his faith.Eric has taken over the reins of the family empire, the legacy of every male Laswell for generations past. He changes its direction, and, using his own considerable personal fortune, establishes t...

Jared Kopecek, M.D., grandson of a renowned psychiatrist-author-lecturer-teacher from the Midwest, begins his first year of Residency in Psychiatry at an institution in the Southwest. He is looking forward to settling down and marrying Stephanie, the love of his life.Jared is assigned to a chronic psychiatric ward, and immediately recognizes not all is well there. Over objections interposed by the hospital's hierarchy, he delves into long-guarded disparities which have kept patient...