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It started as a new virus. Before long, 95% of the world's population was dead. When a deadly flu sweeps the globe, the Bronson family hunkers down to wait it out. It doesn't take long for society to collapse, but when surviving neighbors band together, hope is restored. That hope is swiftly shattered when a rogue element forms, requiring food in exchange for security and medical services.

Corey Curtis is coasting. At 33, she's in the best shape of her life and has a satisfying position at Jackson City Memorial Hospital. With a good paycheck, great friends, and occasional relationships with smart, beautiful women, she couldn't be happier. She thinks. Dr. Thayer Reynolds, whiling away some time before the start of her Emergency Department fellowship at JCMH and intrigued by the stories she's heard, crashes the morgue to get a look at Corey - the woman her young colleagues are whispering about.

As a physician in the ER of a rural South Carolina hospital, Dr. Rhea Lynch is a dedicated healer, a woman of science, and to some degree, a skeptic. But her most fundamental beliefs are put to the test with the arrival of a traveling faith healer, whose "cures" produce some baffling mysteries: a young quadriplegic woman can suddenly move her arms; a chronic pain sufferer begins to dance again. Events go from bizarre to deadly with the arrival of a gravely injured but violent young woman determined to practice a dark, deadly magic.

They’re one of the country’s most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York’s hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds - threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well.

One more level. One more raid. One more energy drink. In a world of endless feeds and infinite quests, where do you draw the line? For Liam Hansen, the line is a blur. By day, he’s a brilliant IT technician at Northwood General, the silent hero who keeps the hospital's life-saving systems online. By night, he’s a legendary tactical coordinator in the sprawling universe of an online game, a digital god among mere players. Fueled by a constant datastream of caffeine and junk food, he masterfully juggles network alerts and dragon attacks, believing he has achieved ultimate efficiency. But ...

The Nightingale's Cage: The Northwood Seven, Book 7 In the gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Northwood Seven series, The Nightingale's Cage follows Sara Fowler, a young hospital volunteer whose desperate need for validation ensnares her in a web of obsessive desire. At Northwood General Hospital—a place where healing and heartbreak intertwine—Sara’s burgeoning fixation on Dr. Julian Hayes, a kind and dedicated resident, threatens to unravel her dreams of a medical career. Mistaking professional admiration for personal connection, she constructs elaborate fantasies of shared purpose...

The Prosperity of Fools: A Gripping Tale of Lies, Justice, and Redemption Two desperate sisters, one a ruthless imposter, collide in a sun-drenched Florida noir thriller where secrets slither through the swamp like alligators. Greta, crippled by guilt after murdering her sister Lee, flees to Florida with Lee's stolen windfall. Now masquerading as the wealthy Lee Thompson, she grapples with a stolen life and a gnawing conscience. Meanwhile, a tenacious social worker, Wanda White, hunts for a missing grandson and uncovers a tangled web of lies. Her ruthless pursuit throws suspicion on Lee and...

The Lotus Eater’s Ward: A Novel of Medicine, Mistakes, and Redemption In the high-stakes wards of Northwood General, brilliance can be both a blessing - and a curse. Zara Ali is a star medical student: dazzlingly intelligent, quick-witted, and able to diagnose with uncanny intuition. But as her clinical training intensifies, Zara’s talent for “seeing through” cases leads her to shortcuts, oversights, and one devastating mistake that nearly ends a patient’s life - and her career. As Zara is forced into a grueling remediation program under the watchful eyes of her mentor, Dr. Kim, ...

The Pathologist’s Stain: A Medical Drama Novel (Book 2) How much harm can a single act of professional envy do - and what does it take to heal from a mistake that changed someone else’s life? In the high-pressure, high-stakes world of academic medicine, one pathologist’s relentless pursuit of accuracy collides with her urgent need for recognition - a collision that threatens careers, lives, and her own sense of self. Dr. Chloe Tran has always found solace in the quiet certainty of the pathology lab, where truth hides in plain sight beneath the microscope. But at Northwood General, ...

Trapped in a monotonous existence, Emily yearns for escape. A seemingly harmless sweepstakes offer becomes her lifeline to a world of luxury and adventure. But aboard the opulent Elysian Escape, a sinister reality emerges. Amidst a high-stakes poker tournament, Emily uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving human trafficking and a ruthless criminal mastermind. With her life on the line, she must navigate a treacherous world of deception and betrayal to survive. As the body count rises, Emily forms an unlikely alliance to dismantle the criminal empire, but the cost of victory may be greater ...

When brilliance meets rage, everyone pays the price. Dr. Marcus Thorne is everything you want in an ER doctor - until his temper explodes. Lightning-fast diagnoses, life-saving decisions under pressure, and surgical precision make him invaluable at Northwood General's trauma center. But his volcanic anger is destroying everything around him. Junior staff cower. Nurses request different assignments. Even seasoned colleagues avoid him during the most critical moments. Marcus tells himself his rage is just passion - the fire that makes him exceptional. He's wrong. During a devastating mass ...

THE MIDAS TOUCH PROTOCOL What is the real price of efficiency? Devon Moore is a rising star in hospital administration, celebrated for his unwavering commitment to operational excellence. But as he streamlines Northwood General from the boardroom to the server rooms, cracks begin to form beneath the surface of his “optimization”—and the consequences become tragically real. Devon's data-driven vision improves the numbers, winning bonuses, headlines, and the coveted attention of a prestigious national fellowship. Yet for frontline clinicians and patients, the pressure of relentless ...

The first volume of the Caterwaul County Chronicles contains three books. Criminal enterprises involved in black market organ sales, human trafficking, and drug smuggling clash with the everyday people in and around Caterwaul County. Confrontations take place in the mountains of Montana, exotic coast North Africa, and the State of Florida. Find out who lives, who dies, and who is able to fight another day.

Suspicious deaths. Broken bonds. Lives in peril. Redemption. Past-haunted emergency physician Zack Winston and case-hardened defense attorney Bridget Larsen battle a malicious malpractice suit. They uncover a medical conspiracy trading in drugs and murder. As they peel back layers of truth, past relationships and current alliances destabilize-threatening both their lives. A new bond ignites between them.

After a harrowing experience with an obsessed patient, oncology nurse practitioner Leigh Weston needed a change. She thought she'd left her troubles behind when she moved home to Carrington, North Carolina, and took a job in the emergency department of the local hospital. But when someone tampers with her brakes, she fears the past has chased her into the present. She reaches out to her high school friend turned homicide investigator, Ryan Parker, for help. Ryan finds satisfaction in his career, but his favorite way to use his skills is as a volunteer underwater investigator.

In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, 26-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning - except the weather is perfectly clear, with not a cloud in sight. Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the Cambridge Forensic Center's director and chief, decides at the scene that this is no accidental act of God. Her investigation becomes complicated when she begins receiving a flurry of bizarre poems from an anonymous cyberbully who calls himself Tailend Charlie.

Two blood-spattered strangers awake, locked in the trunk of a car - with a murdered cop and the smoking gun. Aside from raging headaches and no idea what's happened, they appear to have nothing in common. Troy thinks it's 2001 and he's still a combat surgeon fighting terrorists in Afghanistan. Emmy believes it's 2002 and she's still grifting a living from the streets of L.A.

What the world dreads most has already happened. Now, there is only survival. In her dystopian and post-apocalyptic bestselling novel, The China Pandemic, A. R. Shaw created a realistic world after a much too plausible pandemic event. Now, the remaining must not only survive but thrive or risk complete extinction. The story moves forward with...

A killer is targeting lone women, torturing and murdering them. The precision of his methods leads Detective Jane Rizzoli to suspect he is medically trained. Then Jane makes a terrifying discovery. Years ago a young woman was assaulted in a similar way. She escaped by shooting her attacker dead. So why does it feel like he’s stalking her again?

An untreatable illness. A dangerous misdiagnosis. A deadly plot that hits too close to home, Drs. Jack Wyatt and Madison Shaw have finally settled in to a comfortable life together. But during a friendly college tour with Jack's daughter Anise, they learn that her mother, Jack's ex-wife, is suffering from a perplexing combination of ominous symptoms. Within days, she and ten of her work colleagues are in the ICU with an identical untreatable illness, Wyatt and Shaw soon find themselves embroiled in another medical mystery. The brightest doctors in Washington D.C.