The blizzard was not supposed to stop her there.
When U.S. Deputy Marshal Rena Calloway pulls off a Montana highway at eleven forty-seven at night, she has one job: deliver her federal witness safely to Billings. What she finds instead is a rural clinic glowing warm against the white darkness, a physician who greets her like he expected company, and a dead witness on an examination table before dawn.
The county coroner calls it cardiac arrest.
Rena calls it the beginning.
Cold River Community Clinic has served its isolated Montana community for thirty years, the only medical facility within forty miles, the single thread between twelve thousand people and the vast indifference of the winter landscape surrounding them. Dr. August Veil is beloved. Trusted. The kind of physician who delivers babies in blizzards and treats patients who cannot pay and remembers every name he has ever known.
He is also hiding something inside the walls of the most trusted building in the county.
With her case officially closed, her supervisor ordered back to Denver, and a senior FBI agent making very clear that her continued presence in Montana is unwelcome, Rena does the only thing her conscience permits. She goes back anyway. What she uncovers, piece by painstaking piece, is an operation of breathtaking audacity, a conspiracy buried so deeply inside genuine compassion that the people it has been destroying for nine years would defend it with their lives.
Because for some of them, it is their only life.
Fast-paced, atmospheric, and relentlessly intelligent, The Last Patient of the Night is a crime thriller that gets under your skin and refuses to leave. This is a story about what justice looks like when the system designed to deliver it has been turned against the people who need it most.
Rena will not stop.
The only question is what it will cost her when she doesn't.
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