Hardcover book: LYME WARS - A Love Story. A novel that exposes the controversies impacting patients with Lyme disease -- it explores the personal and psychological challenges of having tick-borne diseases. Surrounded by an idyllic setting of life on Maryland's Eastern Shore, David and Francesca meet at Salisbury University, where he is star of the University basketball team, and she the star of the University dance troupe. Their mutual dedication to music and the great outdoors solidifies love for this healthy, happy young couple. Their dreams of professional careers and the success of their relationship are soon tested by having to deal with tick-borne illnesses, in an atmosphere of suspicion and denial by the medical community and medical insurance industry. They discover that Lyme disease, and other tick-borne co-infections are putting residents of the nation in the dilemma of going months or years without adequate diagnosis and treatment.