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Paranormal romance author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, accuses her husband of a ‘Shakespearean plot’ to poison her

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Paranormal romance author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, accuses her husband of a ‘Shakespearean plot’ to poison her

Jan 18 2019

... In late 2014, it became a labor for the author to breathe and walk. Her teeth putrefied. Her hair fell out in clumps. She endured tremors, stomach cramps, facial swelling and vertigo. There was an unmistakable taste of metal in her mouth.

“Again, as many of you know, one of the reasons I had to cut back on my appearances and stop doing my annual fan convention a couple of years ago was that out of the blue I was viciously and painfully struck down by a bevy of strange, inexplicable and baffling symptoms,” the author, whose works of paranormal romance and urban fantasy have been New York Times bestsellers, told her fans in a newsletter this month.

At first, doctors were stumped by her condition, she explained. But she said a new round of tests last year pointed to a disquieting cause: “Someone close to me was tainting my food.” ...

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