Medical Fiction

She can't remember who she is. But she knows a killer when she sees one. Los Angeles, 1985. Chanel Chase wakes up in the massive concrete halls of LA County Hospital with no memory of her past, a head injury, and a broken leg. The only clue to her identity is a tarnished silver locket containing a faded photograph of a child at a carnival and a weird obsession with finding the perfect chocolate milkshake. When the head pharmacist is found murdered in his office, hospital orderly Eddie Martinez becomes the obvious suspect. Security cameras caught him in the pharmacy the night before, and ...

On the night he dies, August Sweeney is just pulling himself out of the weeds in the restaurant that was supposed to be his comeback. An immense man of immense appetites, August worked his way up from the bowels of a greasy spoon in Queens to international culinary stardom, and his fall, when it came, left a crater visible from space. When Dr. Maya Zhu, a guarded, intense autopsist, is summoned to investigate, she discovers she must operate under strict conditions Sweeney himself dictated before he died.

Even when you’re flying a desk, Afghanistan is a dangerous place. Medic Paul Adams thought he’d seen the last of Afghanistan after his last tour almost killed him and his colleague, Lizzie Jarman. They’d been there, done that, and got the medal. But he can’t turn down a temporary promotion. Just as he arrives in Kandahar air base, rockets start raining down, dealing death and destruction in equal measure. Unknown to Adams, Lizzie isn’t where he thought she was. Now much more than just a colleague, he thought she was safe and sound back at home. Sent out to replace a fallen medic, ...

A trauma patient's dying request of AJ Docker leads him and his retired police dog, Banshee, to embark on their latest adventures. Partnering with his patient's sister, they embark on a quest to uncover powerful research that could alter the course of humanity. Shadowy enemies pursue them in Washington, D. C., in a race to capitalize on the information, while a new threat reveals itself at Doc's hospital. A greedy corporation is attempting to take over the emergency room, threatening the quality of healthcare nationwide.

The odds are finally in my favor. One hand to win back everything I’ve lost. To pay back everything I owe. But these people aren't interested in being paid back. At least not with money. I’ve been preparing for this — reading articles and watching videos filled with blackjack tips. So many videos that I don't think twice when new ones show up in my inbox out of the blue. I never realize what these videos are really preparing me for. When I push the chips in, I know my life is about to change. I can feel it. And I’m ready. What could go wrong?

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

It's 1984, and after an unexpected pregnancy, assistant professor Sophia Shulder learns that her newborn baby has Down syndrome and life-threatening anomalies that require immediate risky surgeries. Under pressure to give consent, Sophia is not sure whether that is best for her baby, or for herself. The hospital, threatened by the Reagan administration's new "Baby Doe" laws, launches legal proceedings to force surgery. Is a severely disabled baby's death ever preferable to life? Who decides?

The perfect baby is only an appointment away… It’s the year 2053, when wealthy couples visit designer-baby companies to create the perfect child. Ex-cop Finnegan Cooper is hired to investigate the unexplained failure of one couple’s embryos at Melgen, the world’s premier designer-baby consultancy. When his client dies the next day in a suspicious car accident, Finn fears the client’s widow will be the next target. Determined to save her, Finn plunges into the shadowy world of genetic engineering, digging into an activist group opposed to genetic modification, an aggressive rival ...

Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell. Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital. And then there’s the devil herself: Jane’s senior resident Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes absolutely hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At 50 years old, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world - forever.

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"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 ...

Returning to practice after a suspension for stealing opioids, a young doctor takes the only job he can find: a post as a physician at the struggling St. Luke's Hospital in east London. Amid the maelstrom of sick patients, overworked staff and underfunded wards, a more insidious secret soon declares itself: too many patients are dying. And a murderer may be lurking in plain sight.

Everyone has secrets… …but not like June's. Her secret will cost her father’s life…and maybe her own. June never asked to be created in a laboratory where human cloning is illegal. She never asked to keep her creation a secret for fear the man who made her—her father—would be arrested for his crimes, but most of all, she never asked for the faulty heart that beats inside her chest. After avoiding her paranoid drunken father for her entire adulthood, he shows up on her doorstep to warn her that people are after him for the secrets he keeps about how she was created. Without a ...

Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin is the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while in-line skating in New York City's Central Park. Within 24 hours of his surgery, he dies.

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.

5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reviews. Wow! Book #8 in the series is another page-turner. Can Mario bend the rules enough to solve this case? Detective Mario DeLuca never thought he would hear from his ex-fiancée, Kate Fontenot, again. But when she asks for his help with an urgent matter, he can't turn her away. Together with Detective Howard Blitz, they are assigned to investigate a case at Rockford Auction House. As they dig deeper, they realize they are being watched by multiple agencies and a dangerous criminal organization involved in human trafficking. Howard, who is believed to be an assassin, ...

Dive into a thrilling world where the boundaries of nursing, technology, and human ambition collide. This groundbreaking nursing novel masterfully weaves a tale of conspiracy, revenge, and relentless pursuit. As the protagonist navigates cutting-edge advancements in healthcare, the story unravels the shocking lengths people will go to achieve their desires. With gripping twists and an eye-opening portrayal of the nursing field's untapped possibilities, this novel challenges everything you thought you knew about the future of medicine—and the darker side of human nature.

It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the Manhattan streets below. Initially, Leo believes the visions are related to his terrible eyesight, something he and his wife, Addie, joke about. Then, he starts to experience occasional, but fleeting, oddities. He's unable to perform simple tasks and he hears things that aren’t real. The doctors have no answers, and his erratic disturbances multiply.

"A hard-hitting medical thriller with a heart." –Best Thrillers Lee W. Hickok, MD, is an alcoholic. Curiously, his presence is required for New Year's Eve in-hospital overnight call. After consuming sweet amber bourbon, the urologist emergently consults on a difficult case. While the surgery is a success, the reason for his presence becomes apparent; the patient is a powerful politician. At the university, Lee W. is a hero. However, tragedy follows the surgery. The absence of essential equipment is revealed, removal the meddling of the patient's chief of staff. A DWI begins Lee W. on a ...