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From the New York Times bestselling author of Blind Faith comes the first book in the Angels of Mercy series--a gripping behind-the-scenes drama of four women who face life and death every day...
July 1st--Transition Day. The most dangerous day of the year. The day staff at Pittsburgh's Angels of Mercy Hospital braces for the arrival of the cocky, untested new interns.
It's also the first day for L.A. transplant Dr. Lydia Fiore, the new ER attending physician. Not a good day to lose a patient--especially not the Chief of Surgery's son. Now, to save her career, Lydia must discover the truth behind her patient's death, even as it leads her into unfamiliar--and risky--territory.
At least she's not alone. There's med student Amanda, a sweet Southern belle with problems of her own; Gina, a resident with a chip on her shoulder; and Nora, the take-charge charge nurse with a cool head but a fiery temper. Not to mention the paramedic who'd like to try his bedside manner out on Lydia. The four women will learn to depend on each other in their fight to save lives--because sometimes everyone needs a lifeline...
July 1st--Transition Day. The most dangerous day of the year. The day staff at Pittsburgh's Angels of Mercy Hospital braces for the arrival of the cocky, untested new interns.
It's also the first day for L.A. transplant Dr. Lydia Fiore, the new ER attending physician. Not a good day to lose a patient--especially not the Chief of Surgery's son. Now, to save her career, Lydia must discover the truth behind her patient's death, even as it leads her into unfamiliar--and risky--territory.
At least she's not alone. There's med student Amanda, a sweet Southern belle with problems of her own; Gina, a resident with a chip on her shoulder; and Nora, the take-charge charge nurse with a cool head but a fiery temper. Not to mention the paramedic who'd like to try his bedside manner out on Lydia. The four women will learn to depend on each other in their fight to save lives--because sometimes everyone needs a lifeline...
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When Berkley asked me to create a new series for them, something edgy and different, medical suspense told through the point of view of the women who worked in an urban trauma center, I was excited by the challenge.
I started by setting LIFELINES during the most dangerous day of the year, July 1st.
Why is July 1st the most dangerous day of the year? Well, here in the US, that's the day the brand new interns start work in hospitals, the ink on their medical school diplomas still wet.
That also gave me my premise. What if a new doctor working her first day at a new hospital lost the "wrong" patient and couldn't explain why he died?
Then I added a twist. What if a doctor saved the "wrong" patient and by doing so was targeted by a killer?
Drawing on my 17 years of practicing medicine as a pediatric emergency room physician and community pediatrician to create LIFELINES' main characters was easy.
Trying to create a realistic set of "badguys" for them to deal with was a lot more difficult.
You see, in real life, most of the villains aren't highly intelligent, cunning serial killers who spend all their time obsessing over how to torment the police, which obscure red herrings to lay, or how to manipulate victims into walking into their devious traps.
No, the killers, rapists, and abusers I've dealt are nothing like fictional killers. Instead, they really are "ordinary"--people you'd pass on the street and think nothing of. A few of the more heinous who I've had the pleasure to testify against were even pillars of the community and leaders of their churches.
I tried to make the badguys in LIFELINES as realistic as possible--people who look just like you and me...to me, that makes them even more frightening.
Hope you feel that way as well!
Thanks for reading!
CJ
About the Author:
I started by setting LIFELINES during the most dangerous day of the year, July 1st.
Why is July 1st the most dangerous day of the year? Well, here in the US, that's the day the brand new interns start work in hospitals, the ink on their medical school diplomas still wet.
That also gave me my premise. What if a new doctor working her first day at a new hospital lost the "wrong" patient and couldn't explain why he died?
Then I added a twist. What if a doctor saved the "wrong" patient and by doing so was targeted by a killer?
Drawing on my 17 years of practicing medicine as a pediatric emergency room physician and community pediatrician to create LIFELINES' main characters was easy.
Trying to create a realistic set of "badguys" for them to deal with was a lot more difficult.
You see, in real life, most of the villains aren't highly intelligent, cunning serial killers who spend all their time obsessing over how to torment the police, which obscure red herrings to lay, or how to manipulate victims into walking into their devious traps.
No, the killers, rapists, and abusers I've dealt are nothing like fictional killers. Instead, they really are "ordinary"--people you'd pass on the street and think nothing of. A few of the more heinous who I've had the pleasure to testify against were even pillars of the community and leaders of their churches.
I tried to make the badguys in LIFELINES as realistic as possible--people who look just like you and me...to me, that makes them even more frightening.
Hope you feel that way as well!
Thanks for reading!
CJ
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-three novels, former pediatric ER doctor CJ Lyons has lived the life she writes about in her cutting edge Thrillers with Heart. CJ has been called a “master within the genre” (Pittsburgh Magazine) and her work has been praised as “breathtakingly fast-paced” and “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) with “characters with beating hearts and three dimensions” (Newsday). Her novels have won the International Thriller Writers’ prestigious Thriller Award, the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, the Readers’ Choice Award, the RT Seal of Excellence, and the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense. Learn more about CJ’s Thrillers with Heart at www.CJLyons.net
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1500605298
- ISBN 13 9781500605292
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages348
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