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In Chasing the Golden Calf, Dugan places the powerful elements that represent good and evil into the framework of her characters. The beautiful young widow, Ashley Mayfield, has truth and love in the form of her young daughter. However, evil enters Ashley’s life when her little girl is diagnosed with leukemia. Ashley watches as the selfish disease quickly steals all of the goodness in her life.
Trust, truth, and love are replaced with anger, lies, and desperation as Ashley confronts numerous obstacles along the path to save her daughter and fight the evil. A deceptive stranger offers to help yet seeks only power and money. The people and institutions she is surrounded by are concerned only with their own financial needs. It is only with the aid and friendship of a kind doctor that Ashley has a chance at seeing goodness restored. However, there is another growing concern. Can the doctor undermine his Hippocratic Oath? We have known that other than criminal behavior the majority of doctors treat the oath as a solemn promise to society. What conditions would a doctor compromise this oath? Would it be the need of a child, or the greed of needing more than more…
With the simple question of whether or not the innocent little girl will survive, Dugan is illustrating the reality that is love versus evil. Is it possible for both to prevail?
Chasing the Golden Calf is available in hardcover (ISBN 1-58939-491-7) from Virtualbookworm.com, Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com. The book can also be ordered from most bookstores around the United States and the United Kingdom. More information about the book and author can be found at www.daisydugan.com.
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