The most dangerous man in the facility is the one who won't say a word.
Alex Mercer was a trauma surgeon once. He traded the Army for the shadows of a hospital basement, surviving a cartel's demands until his final cover went up in flames. Now the Ghost Doctor is exactly where the system wanted him: in a federal cell, pretrial, silent. His hands, the only thing he ever truly was, have nothing left to heal.
Until detainees start dying in the night. The same death, over and over, written off as one more overdose in a place where no one is counting. No one but Alex, who can read what killed them at a glance, and who knows it isn't an accident. Someone inside is dosing these men. Someone is getting it wrong.
The people who own him have already found him. They don't need to break him. They have something worse than a threat: a reason. And the only thing standing between a body count and the cure is the one skill he swore he'd never use again.
Outside the wire, FBI agent Rebecca Moss is hunting the same signature from the other side, her face still healing from the night he pulled her out of the fire. She knows who he is. She knows what she did to protect him. And she is about to learn what he's becoming.
To heal, or to enable. The question that has shadowed Alex Mercer his whole life is about to be answered in the worst possible way.
He is not God. He is a doctor.
And this time, the choice will cost everyone.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The release date is a placeholder. This title will be released Winter 2026.
Genre: Mystery
Alex Mercer was a trauma surgeon once. He traded the Army for the shadows of a hospital basement, surviving a cartel's demands until his final cover went up in flames. Now the Ghost Doctor is exactly where the system wanted him: in a federal cell, pretrial, silent. His hands, the only thing he ever truly was, have nothing left to heal.
Until detainees start dying in the night. The same death, over and over, written off as one more overdose in a place where no one is counting. No one but Alex, who can read what killed them at a glance, and who knows it isn't an accident. Someone inside is dosing these men. Someone is getting it wrong.
The people who own him have already found him. They don't need to break him. They have something worse than a threat: a reason. And the only thing standing between a body count and the cure is the one skill he swore he'd never use again.
Outside the wire, FBI agent Rebecca Moss is hunting the same signature from the other side, her face still healing from the night he pulled her out of the fire. She knows who he is. She knows what she did to protect him. And she is about to learn what he's becoming.
To heal, or to enable. The question that has shadowed Alex Mercer his whole life is about to be answered in the worst possible way.
He is not God. He is a doctor.
And this time, the choice will cost everyone.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The release date is a placeholder. This title will be released Winter 2026.
Genre: Mystery