Anna Vrooman

Black Frost Anna Vrooman

Nurse Shannon Grady, is working with a distinguished research doctor to develop a procedure allowing the transplant of an early human embryo directly from a woman not wanting the child, to another unable to conceive. Her painful challenge is to accept the first transplant. However, she learns the babys father is black, and relives memories of the rape she endured at seventeen, resulting in the birth of a biracial infant placed for adoption. Another nurse who is black receives the second transplant. Both women must hold this in strict confidence even from their fiances and family for three months in case of the embryos rejection. Tempers erupt when they do tell. Although not an abortion center, anti-abortionistsinfiltrated by white supremacists, appear with threats. Threats and vandalism terrorize the center, a young black student is beaten and threatened with death to both him and his white girlfriend, the doctors daughter. A snipers bullet kills an infant. Fear encircles all but the focus remains with Shannon who must decide if such terror should prohibit publication of the procedures success which was to provide a third choice to women.