The Very Best of Care Format: Paperback

For fans of medical dramas like Grey’s Anatomy and thriller authors like Robin Cook, a debut novel about one woman’s attempt to fight back against the dark underbelly of medical malpractice in the NICU in order to save her premature babies’ life.

New York, 2012. A young mother stumbles on a disturbing secret: the health system is so broken that the lives of newborns and the unborn are no longer safe.

Three and a half months before her due date, Sophie Young is forced to deliver her tiny two-pound son—a baby boy barely old enough to survive. Caught in the labyrinth of hospital secrecy, Sophie meets the dark side of modern medicine: corruption, exploitation, and profiteering. When she discovers that a prominent physician has joined forces with Big Pharma to exploit pregnant women and their babies, she races to bring the guilty to justice and save her son before it’s too late. 

In the end, Sophie has one message for her enemy: It’s a law of nature—never come between a mother and her child.

Julie Hatch has devoted her professional life as a pediatric nurse practitioner to caring and advocating for young children and adolescents. She envisions a future of a more evolved world where adults meet children with greater compassion, understanding, and acceptance. She hopes for a future where a child’s authentic, true nature is valued more than misplaced, superficial societal expectations. Currently, Julie owns her own acupuncture practice and lives with her husband on Buzzards Bay along the south coast of Massachusetts.