Time and chance happen to them all ... Interpretation-giving a meaning, concluding, and assigning a label-is subjective. Seemingly objective truth, the proof of an event-a photograph: it captures only a moment.

Human mind is fallible: it is susceptible to prejudice and subjectivity, and appearances can mislead-biased opinions quickly ensue. Insight and understanding may develop, if one's own judgment is questioned, but self-righteousness is rather common.

Rumors can fly, and the news of reputation travels fast. Labels placed on individuals are hard to remove, like tattoos or branding; doubts can last forever-details are necessary to know the truth.

Elizabeth Rheinhart, Beth for short, was born in a refugee camp in Thailand; to a German physician who worked for charity and a university student from California who was researching cross-cultural human behavior. A nurse in the refugee camp gave the little girl her first pet name-Jade, for her blue-green eyes.

Beth schooled in Geneva, tasted some young love, and then grew into a gorgeous woman: fair skin, rich auburn hair, high cheekbones, and a distinct mole-just under the corner of her right eye. She looked sultry, like a teen model in some perfume ad filmed on a beach.

When she was a medical student, she discovered that a magazine was using her old photographs in ads-Beth had modeled Native American jewelry for a charity show in Santa Fe once, her parents had settled there.

She saw Ed Duzssel, a highly successful attorney, he was an articulate and well-read man: dark and handsome, and an accomplished photographer, he had traveled the world. In his office, there was a gorgeous photograph of the Dom, the magnificent Gothic cathedral in Mainz, Germany. Beth was very impressed. She learned Ed lived alone-like a sage in the desert-a good ten miles out of the town: on a ranch, a place of his own inventions.

The attorney-client relationship evolved: Beth and Ed became friends, rapidly grew closer and soon they became lovers, and more ... During her regular weekend visits to the ranch, Beth started to model for Ed-he had a studio in that sprawling house, complete with a darkroom to develop the photographs: it was discrete and they explored ...

He showed Beth his previous work with Laura-his wife: she had been confined to a nursing home for over three years when they met, it was Persistent Vegetative State following a massive stroke. Beth visited the nursing home, understood Laura's poor chances of survival, and understood Ed's loneliness.

Intimacy of adult love metamorphosed into an all-consuming obsession. Hidden form the world, they were touching and exploring the extremes of human sexuality ... The following summer, she had to leave him for a year, for an internship at the Foundation Hospital in Washington, DC ...

Six months later, the New Year morning, Ed was arrested in Santa Fe-for possession of cocaine; police searched the ranch house and discovered a sizeable stash. And hundreds of photographs: depictions of bondage and nudity, one of the women looked too young, they thought. They added the charge of statutory rape-Ed claimed that many of the photographs were engineered: he was a lonely man and that was how he passed time. He also claimed he did not know how the cocaine got into the house. And then he thought it might have belonged to Laura, his wife-she had been in the nursing home for years, and could not communicate.

And who was the second woman in the photographs-an accomplice or a victim?

Investigation deepened and a posse of Special Investigators arrived in Washington to question Beth-did she know he was married? What did she know about the cocaine in the house? Was she an accomplice-did she too snort cocaine-she was asked? They asked her for a random urine sample, the moment they saw her.

Eventually the police would decide to watch her from distance-but they informed the Medical Board anyway. Beth's nightmare was only beginning-Federal Medical Board started its investigation, and the Foundation Hospital asked her to undergo an evaluation by a psychologist.

The psychologist said that she was okay, the Medical Board would eventually decide to close its investigation; however, the big wheels at the hospital had started to turn and creak: medicine is a calling-and image of the Foundation must be protected at all cost.

Beth discovered that in the medical profession, just an accusation could damage you beyond repair. You were presumed guilty, unless you proved your innocence. The Program Director held a power over you, like a high priest-and he decided on your character and suitability to be a physician. Rules of neither neither the Civil nor the Criminal Law applied-rules of the game were decided by the codes and ethics.

She discovered that the right to privacy was not absolute: it was very relative and highly arbitrary, and decided by the others-the peers and the elders. Individuals with their own prejudices, who had no training in the law, self-righteously made decisions that affected you for life-they judged, and then they publicized everything by word of mouth ...

Intern Beth is a dramatic work that is inspired by the human nature and expression of its basic drives for food, shelter, and sex. Claiming to provide individual freedom, contemporary societies have evolved elaborate systems of control. These are ancient and arcane, and are set in stone-apparently for the greater good; those who are hungry for power exploit the system.

This work was made possible by real-life experiences and astute observations of a physician. This first novel, addressing age-old issue of control of an individual's life by the society, is set in contemporary United States. Likely to be considered controversial-this is a page turning story. Full of raw emotions and strong images, sometimes erotic and breathtaking, sometimes gentle and tranquil, but never boring-the end leaves you shocked ...

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