Medical Fiction

He’s a billionaire doctor with a supportive family. I’m an artist who can’t keep a day-job while taking care of my little sister. We’re opposites in every way. My BFF and I are going out to meet men. Lots of men! I’ve been focused on other more important things, but when my best friend insists we do something fun, I give in. It’s been a long time. Did I mention I even needed to dust off my Jimmy Choo’s? His chocolate brown hair and piercing dark eyes find me in line outside the club, and my stomach does cartwheels. Yes, he puts the yum in yummy. It gets us in and when we ...

Skilled surgeon Veronica Mallick runs her London hospital department like she runs her surgeries: with hawkish efficiency. Then her perfect world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new Head of Trauma. Cassie Taylor is a brash, no-nonsense army surgeon, fresh from the front lines, and trying to find her way in civilian life. She's all action and sharp edges, not too interested in rules. She's even less interested in bureaucracy, or playing nice with her uptight, paper-pushing colleague, Veronica.

A fierce sandstorm hits southern Algeria and uncovers a lost ruin, its location unknown to modern man...until now. A team led by slacker archaeologist, Harrison "Hank" Boyd, is called in to investigate the find. In way over his head, Hank must lead his team through countless dangers and survive brutal encounters with enemies both human and inhuman alike. And if that's not bad enough, a shadowy group with a thirst for violence and a blind ambition is hot on their heels and will stop at nothing to obtain what has been found. Hank and company should have heeded the warning left by the ancient ...

All Bleeding Stops gives listeners an intimate look at what goes on inside a trauma center, highlighting injuries sustained in car crashes, shootings, and stabbings—basically anything bleeding, obstructed, or perforated. Having lived and breathed trauma for four decades, Dr. Cohn is an ideal guide to demystify the role of the trauma surgeon and their place in a hospital. The behind-the-scenes look he provides is infused with sobering tales from his career as a military surgeon and in trauma centers across the country as well as his descriptions of high-profile medical stories.

Margaret’s carefree teenage life comes crashing down on her when she’s diagnosed as having kidney failure. Her only option is to be put on dialysis three days a week. Margaret is so depressed and torn over living her life connected to a machine that she’s not certain she wants to go on living. Her only hope for a normal life is to receive a kidney transplant, but she’s an only child, and because of her parents medical conditions they are unsuitable donors. Michael is determined to donate one of his kidneys to her, but his parents are against the transplant because they are terrified...

The RATS were the first sign. If only they would listen. Maggie De Luca recently relocated to New York. Working as a medical detective in her new position, she is called in to investigate a mysterious death. The red rings on the lungs were alarming enough, but then she hears the word plague. Now, the clock is ticking. And the death count is rising. Maggie tries to trace the origin of the disease, but is always one step behind. Then she starts seeing things...the victims...reaching out from the grave. But ghosts aren’t real, right? Meanwhile... Microbiologist Michael Harbinger believes he ...

Don Donaldson brings us to the famous French Quarter with our favorite dynamic detective duo in this gripping thriller. New Orleans's chief medical examiner, Andy Broussard, and his assistant, criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, set off to investigate a series of violent serial murders. Examinations of the victims have led them to discover that each one's throat was ripped out with two tools: a garden fork and something unrecognizable.

In Atlanta, Dr. Peyton Shaw is awakened by the phone call she has dreaded for years. As the CDC's leading epidemiologist, she's among the first responders to outbreaks around the world. It's a lonely and dangerous job, but it's her life - and she's good at it. This time she may have met her match. In Kenya, an Ebola-like pathogen has infected two Americans. One lies at death's door. With the clock ticking, Peyton assembles her team and joins personnel from the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the WHO.

INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE! Just broke out of prison like the psycho I am. Shoot-to-Kill order on my head like I deserve. Cops, Marshalls, and Banditos on my trail and getting closer. But just one thought on my murderous mind . . . Just one whisper in my sinful soul . . . Just one need in my hateful heart . . . I'm keeping her. She's mine, and I'm keeping her. If you've read my other novella series, you know how wild my stuff can get. It's not for everyone, but maybe it's for you ;) Drama and madness. Twists and turns. Chaos and crazy. Sweetness with a ...

From WSJ and USA Today bestselling author Judith Lucci When your father wants to kill you, life can be treacherous... When your father’s a terrorist, life is precarious. The stakes are high. When he wants to kill you and those you love, life becomes fragile and uncertain. Fearing the very worse, Dr. Amon leaves her beloved war-dog Tessa at home with her mother and travels to Germany to save her lover’s life… Can she be effective? Will they listen to her? Ramstein Air Force Base is a dangerous place Enemies watch her day and night… But she doesn’t know them… Sheep in wolves ...

From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field.

Warning: This is an erotic anthology meant for adults only. It contains explicit, sexual content. For most people, the idea of female supremacy is little more than a thought experiment, something you might find in comic books or movies. But there are women who understand what kind of power they can wield. Lots of men realize just how vulnerable they are. Often, they morph into sexists because they’re scared. These men—boys, really—think they should be able to control the world around them because they’re terrified that women would do a better job. They should be scared. Here are ...

Something unusual is going on with the dementia patients at Pleasant View Nursing Home. Dr. Jim Bob Brady, Houston orthopedic surgeon and amateur sleuth, finds himself in the midst of a different type of medical mystery. His friend and colleague, Dr. James Morgenstern, refers him a series of dementia patients with orthopedic problems from Pleasant View Nursing Home. Each patient dies, irrespective of the treatment, a situation that Doc Brady is unaccustomed to. Each death prompts an autopsy, performed by another Brady colleague, Dr. Jeff Clarke, who discovers unusual brain pathology in each...

One wild night with UAB's most irresistible surgeon. Now, I’m stuck working alongside him—and fighting every urge not to fall back into his bed. I’ve spent years on my research, and the last thing I need is a distraction like Dr. Hunter Parrish. But luck isn’t on my side—now the secret bad-boy doctor is my partner on a high-stakes, make-or-break clinical trial. Our night together should have been the end of it—a scorching, forbidden secret. But every time his smoldering eyes lock onto mine, it feels like he’s daring me to forget the rules. There’s no way I’m letting this ...

Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery-solving duo. Among the dead collected in The Big Easy floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina are three nude female bodies, all caught in the same brush tangle, none with water in their lungs. Broussard knows in his ample gut that this was not an act of God, and not the work of Katrina. But Broussard has perhaps the biggest challenge of his colorful career.

"A fast-paced, third-person narrative sweeps readers along from the start in this action-packed adventure/thriller with the plot twists Freeman fans have come to expect. Well crafted dialogue and lean prose keeps the heart pounding. Readers seeking an engrossing plot that won’t let them go until the very end will enjoy this latest installment in an established series." The BookLife Prize An Egyptian hieroglyph…a Celtic shield…a secret Gutenberg book…an English mariner’s log…an eminent scientist’s lab notes…and the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. At dawn, the ...

August 1914. While Europe enters a brutal conflict unlike any waged before, the Duncan household in Baltimore, Maryland, is the setting for a different struggle. Ruth and Elise Duncan long to escape the roles that society, and their controlling father, demand they play. Together, the sisters volunteer for the war effort - Ruth as a nurse, Elise as a driver.

Captured by chaos. Bound by destiny. Love howls in hidden shadows. By day, I heal wounds as a nurse; by night, I'm consumed by vengeance against the creatures that shattered my world. Matt emerged from the shadows—stronger than a storm, with secrets tethered to the moon. He was a protector of the night, wrapped in danger and temptation, his touch a dangerous promise. Behind his grumpy exterior lies a good heart, but within me burns a hatred too fierce to quench. Our closeness ignited every fated bond trope—our tension as intoxicating as moonlit night runs. My world, once black and white...

Jacquelyn Wilkes is a nurse forged from tragedy, determined to save others from the same pain. But when the enigmatic Dr. Jonah Martin arrives at the clinic, her carefully constructed world begins to unravel. Despite his warm nature with patients, the handsome doctor maintains a cool distance with the nurses, fueling Jacquelyn's mistrust. But when she discovers a malignant lump in her own breast, Jonah is the ally she never expected to find in the fight of her life. Yet beneath his thoughtful gaze lies a secret turmoil, and when past accusations come back to haunt him, Jacquelyn must find ...

Is it medical malpractice, or is the attorney just another ambulance chaser? It’s 1995, and Houston orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jim Bob Brady has been sued for medical malpractice; a mysterious infection caused a knee replacement to end up as an amputation. Donovan Shaw, a ruthless plaintiff’s attorney, has taken the case and doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that he and Brady share a number of friends. “It’s not personal!” Shaw says. But it feels personal—especially when Shaw threatens, “I will do anything, and I mean anything, to win the case, even if I have to destroy you and ...