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By 1866, Dr. Cheney Dufall has had her fill of places where people distrust her skill simply because she is a woman. So she and her assistant, Shiloh, return to Cheney's home in New York City, wher she can set up practice among "respectable" folks.

At the request of a pregnant friend who wants her to deliver her baby, Dr. Cheney Duvall journeys to the remote and primitive wilds of the Ozarks and comes face to face with the illiteracy, superstitions, and hatred of the local mountain people.

Seventeen-year-old Kevin Adams' best friend is the first polio victim of Fort Appleby. In just a few short months, Kevin's adolescence is stripped away and he must confront decisions he is not prepared to make.

Helen Bradley is a journalist who uses both spiritual strength and investigative skills to uncover the facts for her articles. Now she has received an urgent request for help when the director of a prestigious convalescent home dies from an apparent heart attack. His widow, however, is convinced that he was murdered.

Dr. Cassandra Hart is a Pittsburgh ER doctor who discovers that her very own hospital is the source of a deadly street drug. When her best friend is murdered and Cassie starts getting death threats, she must trust Detective Mickey Drake to protect her. Yet even as a passionate love affair blossoms between them, a relentless killer draws ever closer.

Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, graduate science students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for egg donors.

New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton confront a ballooning series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. It seems impossible to determine why and how these patients are dying, yet Laurie comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related--they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever healthcare serial killer.

During a study break, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez is shocked to learn that her grandmother died during surgery in New Delhi. Desperate to find out why, she uncovers several other unexplained deaths.

Successful doctor and entrepreneur Angela Dawson has a controlling stake in Angels Healthcare, the highly successful medical company she founded. But something unexpected and deeply troubling is happening at her three New York specialty hospitals--drug-resistant staph infections are on the rise, killing patients.

After years spent paying his dues, talented physician Craig Bowman enjoys a successful practice providing "concierge" medicine for patrons wealthy enough to afford this exclusive service. But when a hypocondriac patient dies and a malpractice suit is launched, the good doctor's life is sent into a tailspin. New York medical examiner Jack Stapleton suggests the body be exhumed, and then things get really interesting. Startling evidence comes to light--and there are those who will stop at nothing to keep this information buried.