Medical

1937 - When a diphtheria outbreak sweeps through the Lancashire countryside, district nurse Lara Flynn faces one of the hardest seasons of her career. She and the small team at Ingleside Surgery must work tirelessly to protect the most vulnerable in the village and surrounding farms: its children. A shocking discovery at the mill pond sends fear rippling through the close-knit community. As the ensuing police investigation gathers pace, the bonds of the village are tested.

Some patients are admitted. Others are brought. When investigative analyst Nora Voss discovers a patient listed in a hospital transfer log with no admission record, she assumes it's a clerical mistake. Hospitals lose paperwork every day. But the deeper she digs into restricted archives and security records, the more impossible the situation becomes. The patient was transferred through a department that doesn't officially exist. The Clearance Ward.

Years after World War III, the world lies broken... not just from bombs, but from what followed. Radiation. Bioweapons. Years of reckless science. The outcome? A mutated form of cancer that spreads faster than fire and kills within weeks. There’s no treatment. No cure. Only silence, empty cities, and rationed painkillers.

The USA TODAY bestselling novel of terror from “one of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop! On a remote island in the Canadian wilderness, five elderly volunteers from different walks of life are given a tantalizing offer: to...

Zoe Fontaine has had to battle many enemies in the shadows. When her sister becomes the target of someone’s twisted games. It’s up to Zoe to find the truth. While caring for her sister, who lies in a comatose state. A mysterious fire tears through the community center in town. Hoping to get Zoe away from her obsession with her sister’s case. Leo urges Zoe to investigate the town’s fire.

Two mysterious deaths—one in LA, one in Boston. Same horrific symptoms. No known cause. ONLY WRONG ONCE is the first book in the pulse-pounding FBI & CDC Thriller series from USA Today bestselling author Jenifer Ruff, and a remarkable look at the efforts and sacrifices of those who protect us. When FBI counterterrorism agent Quinn Traynor discovers the first victim of a lethal, unfamiliar virus, he calls CDC epidemiologist Madeline Hamilton. Their investigation reveals an imminent bio-terror attack, and their only hope is to identify the terrorists carrying the disease before it spreads.

Ellie et Louise sont deux sœurs fusionnelles, l'une sportive et solitaire, l'autre coquette et ultra sociable. Leur vie bascule le jour où Louise apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer rare des ovaires. Démunie, Ellie ne sait comment trouver sa place aux côtés de sa petite sœur. Pourtant, elles vont mener, avec leurs parents, un combat ensemble contre cette maladie.

Hamburg 1960: Die junge Ärztin Renate Studt begleitet ihren Mann Matthias nach New York, um seinen Onkel Rudi zu besuchen, einen erfolgreichen Rechtsanwalt mit großem Herzen. Zurück in Hamburg holt Renate der harte Klinikalltag schnell wieder ein. In der psychiatrischen Abteilung kämpft sie nicht nur um ihre Patientinnen, sondern auch gegen ihren machtgierigen Oberarzt Dr. Kleinschmidt, der ihr das Leben schwer macht – und schließlich sogar versucht, ihr einen fatalen Behandlungsfehler unterzuschieben.

From USA Today Bestselling Author Jenifer Ruff —a dark suspense thriller series featuring a fascinating, twisted protagonist. Everett At Everett College, perfection has a DARK side…Beautiful and brilliant Brooke, a transfer student with a mysterious past, aims to graduate first in her class at Everett and attend medical school. Her classmates and professors are captivated by her achievements and appearance. Only Jessica, a wealthy socialite fueled by prescription pills and a huge case of snobbery, senses there's something not quite right about the perfect student.

Delia works the overnight shift at a pharmacy where nothing unusual is supposed to happen. But one patient record won't settle. The prescriptions escalate. The doctors multiply. The details don't align. Individually, every entry makes sense. Together, they form something else. As Delia digs deeper, she realizes the system isn't failing. It's functioning exactly as designed. And that may be the problem. The Record She Kept is a slow-burn psychological suspense novel about control, systems, and the cost of noticing what others ignore.

In the final chapter of the trilogy, the stakes are no longer just financial, they are a matter of life and death. As corruption within the healthcare system deepens, investigator Webb Espy uncovers disturbing evidence surrounding dialysis treatment programs and the systemic failures that threaten vulnerable patients. Behind the scenes, powerful organizations manipulate the system for profit while hiding their actions behind layers of bureaucracy and influence.

It's the early '90's, and Florida's Medicaid program has become fertile ground for corruption and someone is making millions exploiting it.. When investigator Webb Espy begins uncovering suspicious activity within the state’s Medicaid billing system, what appears to be routine oversight quickly expands into a massive web of healthcare fraud, political maneuvering, and organized deception. As Espy and his team dig deeper, they uncover a scheme far larger than anyone expected. The investigation brings Espy into conflict with powerful figures who will do anything to protect their operations.

Two young American tourists are brutally murdered in Cancun. A private investigator in Connecticut is desperate to uncover the truth about a missing coed. At the heart of both matters is Brooke Walton, a young medical student. When her summer internship in a Medical Examiner's Office exposes a disturbing mystery and her ruthless brilliance, authorities take a closer look. Can Brooke save her own beautiful skin with someone watching her every move? Will one more murder solve her urgent problems, or dig her an even deeper grave?

Medical school at Rothaker University is cutthroat, which is perfect for first-year student Brooke Walton. She thrives on the work and the stress—it's the people she can do without. Except for Xander Cross, a handsome former college football player who just completed a tour in Afghanistan. Brooke is intrigued by Xander's troubled past and wants to get to the bottom of his darkest secrets. But when Brooke's anatomy partner, Rachael, insists Brooke violated the honor code, all Brooke's accomplishments and years of hard work are in jeopardy and she could be expelled from prestigious Rothaker.

In the heart of wartime Berlin, where darkness stretches beyond blackout curtains and fear clings like autumn frost to leaves, a young Bavarian nurse named Lena stands at the epicenter of history’s most harrowing moral crucible. Her story, like the city itself, unfolds as one of quiet resilience, brutal betrayal, and an unyielding search for hope amid unimaginable horror.

A single billing entry shouldn’t matter. But this one does. Nora Voss has spent ten years inside hospital systems —processing cases, trusting documentation, moving patients through structures designed to hold. Not question. When a routine file reveals a follow-up procedure billed after a patient’s death, Nora does what she’s trained to do. She verifies. What she finds isn’t an error. It’s a pattern. Records that look complete. Transfers authorized without authority. Cases sealed, archived, and kept just active enough to be used. Every step documented. Every step defensible.

Mary Wilson is a twenty seven year old woman who just moved to Salena, Washington. Her fist day as a registered nurse at the BrightStone Psychiatric Hospital, turns into a sinister nightmare. Deception, torture, murder and kidnapping, is far from what she expected for her first residency. After a threatening blow to her sanity, she must fight her way out... or die in the hospital.

Modern dating can be such a killer… True-crime enthusiast, Dr. Kylie Saunders is two years into an arduous medical training program in New York City, which leaves her with little time for romance. Until she meets Dr. Blake Weathers. A fellow resident with an intense passion for neurosurgery, devilishly good looks and irresistible charm, Blake is completely intoxicating. Yet Kylie can't shake the unsettling feeling that the enigmatic surgeon is hiding something.

Drei Jahre ist es her, dass Dalia Heidelberg mit gebrochenem Herzen hinter sich gelassen hat. Doch als ihr Zwillingsbruder im Krankenhaus landet und in Lebensgefahr schwebt, sieht sie sich gezwungen, zurückzukehren und sich ihrer zerrütteten Familie zu stellen. Dass sie dabei Alex über den Weg läuft, ist unvermeidlich. Aber obwohl er es war, der ihr damals das Herz gebrochen hat, geht er ihr noch immer unter die Haut. Mit jeder Begegnung der beiden flammen mehr der alten Gefühle wieder auf.

When lives matter, profit kills. In this high-stakes world of emergency medicine, the greatest threat isn’t trauma. It’s the tyrant in charge. The Rescue Flight medevac crew is back. A catastrophic multi-vehicle crash in the Colorado Rockies exposes an administrator’s deadly greed. To protect the victims, the team must defy their boss—even if it means risking their careers. With the highway shut down and time running out, seven lives hang in the balance. The fear is real. So is the countdown. And Terry? He’s watching every move.

Shantel Minson's life looks stable from the outside. Inside, she is unraveling. Battling fibromyalgia and sarcoidosis while managing a Family Dollar store in Charleston, she wakes each day to a body that feels like a battlefield. The world around her pulses with color and movement, but her strength is fading. The grief of losing her father. The ache of a broken engagement. The quiet exhaustion of surviving instead of living. Then she collapses.

Lias Leben scheint perfekt: Top-Abschluss, eine gemeinsame Wohnung mit ihrem Freund Preston – bis sie erfährt, dass er sie hintergeht und über Lia an das Familienunternehmen herankommen will. Verletzt flüchtet sie zu ihrem Bruder Holden nach Creighton, entschlossen, sich nur auf sich selbst zu konzentrieren. Doch dann trifft sie Garrick – Notfallsanitäter, Holdens bester Freund, charmant, witzig und viel zu attraktiv. Auch er kommt aus einer gescheiterten Beziehung, und beide sind sich einig: das mit ihnen bleibt unverbindlich.

Der Fall der jungen Frau, die in den Maßregelvollzug eingewiesen wurde, scheint klar zu sein: Bianca Kehler ist eine Betrügerin und Mörderin. Alle Indizien sprechen gegen sie. Doch immer wieder erwähnt sie eine geheimnisvolle Frau, mit der ihr Unglück angefangen haben soll. Da es für die Existenz dieser Unbekannten keine Beweise gibt, vermuteten sogar die für ihren Fall zuständigen Ermittler, sie könnte unter einer Wahnerkrankung leiden.

Die zweiundsechzigjährige Addie Finch hat nach Stationen bei der Armee und der Polizei von Los Angeles jetzt einen Job als Sicherheitskraft in einem Mietlager. Als sie eines Nachts den obdachlosen Teenager Jonathan trifft, beschließt sie spontan, ihm zu helfen. Sie bietet ihm an, in ihrem Gartenschuppen zu wohnen. Aus dem Hilfsangebot wird bald eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft: Während Jonathan den verwilderten Garten zum Leben erweckt, lernt die trockene Alkoholikerin Addie, dass wahre Stärke auch im Loslassen liegt.

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the free and sovereign states, bound in service to God and man, with liberty and justice for all,” Sheena quoted out loud, reading from notes provided by her Subterranian and Quazarian sponsors. Will responded by picking up his cell phone and texting. “What are you doing?” asked Sheena. Will raised his face and smiled. “I’m sending this pledge to my dad. As the governor of Texas, he’ll have everyone in the state reciting it.” “I hope so,” declared Sheena.