Malady" is a historical fiction novel about Virginia, a young woman in a Seventh Day Adventist congregation in the 1920's who is struck with Cotard delusion after an automobile accident, leaving her to believe she and her daughter perished.While going through the motions of life, Virginia marries a lifelong friend of hers, Oliver Crain, a rambunctious young man and farmer. Soon after, he reveals a secret, his affinity for cross dressing.