Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the opioid crisis, the AIDS crisis, and the Mind-Body movement, which led to integrative or functional medicine. She was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic approach to healthcare long before yoga hit the mainstream and “wellness” took root in our vernacular. Indeed, Candace’s visionary research shaped history — for good and, inadvertently, for evil. (Hachette Book Group, 2023)

“With exemplary research, balanced accounts and deeply evocative prose, Ms. Ryckman’s biography offers a truly insightful narrative on what it can mean to be a woman at the cutting edge of science.” - Wall Street Journal

“Riveting biography… nuanced portrait…Readers will be engrossed” - Publishers Weekly

“A well-reported deep dive into the life of a radical and complicated genius." - Karen Springe, Booklist

Featured on Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh's Seen, Read 2023 list.

Stiletto Network is the first book to identify and catalyze a groundbreaking trend: women banding together to improve lives and companies and communities, to realize their dreams and change the world. It is both a call to action and an inside look at a better way of doing business.