Death is walking the Amazon. The drums have been pounding for days. And five medical students are headed straight into its path.

Chosen for a ninety-day Medical Studies Abroad Program, five Harvard students set out for the Peruvian rainforest to study tropical disease. Then their boat runs aground on a sandbar, their crew abandons them, and they are taken captive by an Aguaruna village convinced the outsiders brought a curse of death. Kneeling before the fire, they are moments from execution.

A mysterious illness has already taken the chief's beloved wife. Now his only daughter, Princess Adalia, is slipping away. The students' medicine may be the only thing that can save her life, and their own.

Can modern science and the shaman's jungle remedies work together before the disease reaches the next village? Who, or what, is carrying it? And why are armed men preparing to wipe out an entire people?

For Nathan Carmichael, a missionary's son who walked away from his faith, survival may depend on the God he knew as a boy.

Drawn from the author's years as a medical missionary in the Amazon, Jungle Medicine launches the Amazon Adventure series with pulse-pounding stakes, cultures in collision, and hope that shines in the darkest places. Step into the jungle and begin the adventure today.