After a career in senior management in education, government and health sciences, Renate Krakauer embarked on a writer's journey. She has published short stories, personal essays and a memoir. "Only by Blood" is her first novel. www.inanna.ca/index.php/catalog/only-... Only by Blood is a novel of the search for roots, mother-daughter love, and family reconciliation through the experiences of a Polish Jewish woman Holocaust survivor and a Polish. Catholic woman doctor.