A NEW FEMALE SLEUTH YOU’LL LOVE—JUST DON'T MESS WITH HER! "… a medical thriller not for the squeamish.” -Publishers Weekly.
Meet Nurse Gina Mazzio: She’s feisty, determined, tenacious, and a ballsy Italian ex-Bronxite. She might remind you a bit of Sandra Bullock when Sandra’s in FBI mode, because you know how scary nurses can be; and how compassionate. Gina’s patients are in danger. And everyone at her fancy San Francisco hospital is blowing it off like everything’s normal.

Carl Chapman, a young man with an excellent prognosis, has already died--and another patient’s acting weird and desperate; a third, a teen-ager, has actually run away.
Gina soon finds out her patients are being subjected to a diabolical form of blackmail after being blasted with chemotherapy and every other toxic poison available to save their lives. Most days they're so run down they're more dead than alive. But there’s one chance for survival—each will be infused with his or her own treated bone marrow – frozen, secure in the hospital’s storage vaults.

And then comes the note: “We have your marrow...pay $50,000 or die now!"

Before it's over, Gina will be stalked, threatened, and nearly killed. This is an action-packed, shocking, take-no-prisoners tale of medical suspense, definitely not for the faint-hearted. But fans of the more hard-boiled medical thrillers (and also of Patricia Cornwell) will eat it up; as will lovers of strong women sleuths, hospital mysteries, and all medical fiction, especially fans of Tess Gerritsen, Carolyn McCray, Eileen Dreyer, Lisa Genova, and Robin Cook.