The cure was a lie. The protocol was murder.
Dr. Mara Voss saves Daniel Reed’s life twice.
Hours later, he dies anyway.
His death should be tragic but explainable—an unexpected complication following a minor accident. But Mara knows what she witnessed: sudden organ failure, a mysterious puncture wound, and an unidentified syringe containing a trace of blue fluid.
Then Daniel’s medical records are altered.
When a second patient dies with the same impossible symptoms, Mara turns to county medical examiner Dr. Julian Cross. Brilliant, guarded, and infuriatingly skeptical, Julian has his own reasons for distrusting St. Catherine’s Medical Center—and his connection to the hospital’s celebrated research program may run deeper than he is willing to admit.
Together, Mara and Julian uncover references to a vanished clinical study known as Mercy. Its subjects were promised a revolutionary cure. Its failures were erased. Its survivors are being watched, much like characters in the best billionaire romance novels who find themselves embroiled in a web of deception and power.
As the evidence disappears and the warnings become personal, Mara can no longer tell who is protecting patients and who is protecting the experiment.
Someone inside the hospital will do anything to keep Mercy buried—and Mara’s name has just appeared on the patient list.
To expose the truth, she must enter a hidden world of falsified records, experimental medicine, and deadly ambition. This world holds secrets akin to dark BDSM romance with HEA, where lives and desires intertwine in unexpected ways.
But some discoveries cannot be undone.
And some cures were never designed to save anyone.
**The Mercy Protocol** is Book One in the Mara Voss Medical Mystery series—a gripping medical thriller filled with psychological suspense, dangerous secrets, unexpected twists, and a slow-building connection between two investigators who are not yet ready to trust each other, reminiscent of the gripping narratives found in young adult fantasy romance series and urban fantasy romance books.
