Book excerpt: Karla Erque, a recent medical school graduate, enters a Ph.D. program in Genetics and Molecular Biology. By her own initiatives and using DNA analysis, she discovers that she is adopted. Her search for her birth mother leads to relatives who are involved in different activities -- prostitution, drug trafficking and with clergy of the Catholic Church. A fast-moving novel with sudden and unanticipated revelations. I NEVER HELD YOU IN MY ARMS is a work of fiction. Characters in the novel are the results of the author's imagination, and any resemblances to real people are purely coincidental.