She has every reason to trust them . . .

Claire Weaver's been admitted to a state-of-the-art medical institute in Miami. It's equipped with a brilliant staff devoted to the latest in cutting-edge medical wizardry.

Her life is in their hands.

She has every reason to fear them . . .

Erin Wells is a reporter for the AMA News, and Claire's closest friend. She's arrived

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DC heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury-a dissection. And all the victims have first received innocuous-looking cards announcing: "Your heart attack/stroke will arrive within one hour!" Private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, and they immediately suspect Leeds' former lover, Dr. Silvana Moretti,...

Doctor Peter Branstead's neurology department at St. Mark's Hospital in New York's picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are too methodical to be a coincidence, but how-and why-are they being killed? Peter's investigation leads him into a dark underworld of...

Four psychiatric managed care companies take the next logical step in their obsession with cost containment and begin to secretly murder chronic mental patients, making it look like an accident or suicide. After Dr. James Corrigan and his wife are savagely attacked by a former patient, he joins the Death Panel and gets sucked into their vortex of evil. Everything begins to unravel when one of Dr. Corrigan's friends is sentenced to death and he is...

Washington DC-and terror in an isolated government-sanctioned medical laboratory as the potential of medicine goes horrifyingly wrong. When Susan, a young researcher, loses her fiancée in a terrible accident, she is seduced by Michael, a friend and the head doctor on a top-secret neurometric project backed by the White House and the famed Borg-Harrison Foundation. Joining Michael's team, Susan is unaware of the terrible danger she faces in the high-security...

Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial meningitis. Despite Egan's frantic efforts, the baby...

In the halls of Saint Jude Hospital, a dark and haunting secret lies dormant, waiting to unleash its chilling fury. Dr. Emily Hartman, a young physician with an insatiable thirst for truth, embarks on her first day in Ward 13, the hospital's oldest and most ominous section.

As unexplained deaths plague the ward and crimson stains mark the victims' beds, Emily's world spirals into a nightmarish descent. Haunting whispers and malevolent

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