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He works in the heart of a hectic ER, but his greatest fear is losing his family. Can an intrepid doctor protect his own from a twisted mind?
Dr. Zack Winston's self-confidence is on shaky ground. Slated to see his young-adult daughters over Christmas for the first time in five years, the skilled emergency physician worries his relationship issues will rear their ugly heads and prevent them from bonding. His determination to focus on his personal life sinks deep when he questions a pediatrician colleague's alleged suicide attempt by drowning.
Searching for the truth behind a disturbing spate of obstetrical deaths, Zack teams with the beguiling lawyer whose life he saved the previous year. As they follow a suspicious trail from the hospital morgue to the icy Potomac, he fears any misstep will plunge them into a lethal wintry doom...
Will his refusal to stand down cost Zack everything he holds dear?
Warm and Dead is the cutting-edge second book in the Dr. Zack Winston Series of medical conspiracy thrillers. If you like flawed protagonists, puzzling conspiracies, and tense family drama, then you'll love emergency physician Mike Krentz's pulse-pounding conflict.
EXCERPTS:
Brutal pressure in her lower abdomen awakened the sixteen-year-old from a fitful sleep. Much worse than the labor pains two days ago.
Deep breaths, no help. She needed to pee. Could her bladder burst?
She tried to get up, but sudden cramping around her pelvis forced her
back onto the mattress.
More deep breaths. She rolled to one side. Did she sleep through a feeding?
Put off the bathroom. Nurse the baby. Forget the pain.
Why isn't she crying?
Terror swept through the teenager's body. She squinted against the darkness in the dreary bedroom. The horrible truth exploded in her mind seconds before her eyes focused on the empty bassinet.
Panic overcame pain. She fumbled for the switch on the bedside lamp and spent three tries to flip it on. Frantic eyes searched the room.
No baby.
* * *
You can plan for life, but you can't outsmart it.
His dad's prescient words caromed in Dr. Zack Winston's mind as he arrived at Bethesda Metro Hospital at 7 AM on a frozen late-December morning for his twelve-hour ER shift. Zack had not outsmarted life, but he had preserved it. He survived the attack on his life, saved Bridget's, and exposed a medical cabal.
Killed his best friend and mentor, too. For cause justified.
A year later, Zack relished his routine emergency medicine practice and less reckless off-duty lifestyle. Approaching fifty, Zack Winston had finally grown up. No longer driven to seek or create drama in his life.
The sub-freezing weather and predicted snowstorm should deter the seasonal crunch of ill and worried-well people seeking pre-holiday tune-ups in the ED. Zack checked his phone, again. The weather should stay away until after his evening trip to Reagan Airport to pick up his daughters visiting from the west coast.
Zack's optimism seemed validated when the off-going emergency physician, Dr. Paula Cho, turned over a department almost empty of patients.
He should have known better.
Genre: Thriller
Dr. Zack Winston's self-confidence is on shaky ground. Slated to see his young-adult daughters over Christmas for the first time in five years, the skilled emergency physician worries his relationship issues will rear their ugly heads and prevent them from bonding. His determination to focus on his personal life sinks deep when he questions a pediatrician colleague's alleged suicide attempt by drowning.
Searching for the truth behind a disturbing spate of obstetrical deaths, Zack teams with the beguiling lawyer whose life he saved the previous year. As they follow a suspicious trail from the hospital morgue to the icy Potomac, he fears any misstep will plunge them into a lethal wintry doom...
Will his refusal to stand down cost Zack everything he holds dear?
Warm and Dead is the cutting-edge second book in the Dr. Zack Winston Series of medical conspiracy thrillers. If you like flawed protagonists, puzzling conspiracies, and tense family drama, then you'll love emergency physician Mike Krentz's pulse-pounding conflict.
EXCERPTS:
Brutal pressure in her lower abdomen awakened the sixteen-year-old from a fitful sleep. Much worse than the labor pains two days ago.
Deep breaths, no help. She needed to pee. Could her bladder burst?
She tried to get up, but sudden cramping around her pelvis forced her
back onto the mattress.
More deep breaths. She rolled to one side. Did she sleep through a feeding?
Put off the bathroom. Nurse the baby. Forget the pain.
Why isn't she crying?
Terror swept through the teenager's body. She squinted against the darkness in the dreary bedroom. The horrible truth exploded in her mind seconds before her eyes focused on the empty bassinet.
Panic overcame pain. She fumbled for the switch on the bedside lamp and spent three tries to flip it on. Frantic eyes searched the room.
No baby.
* * *
You can plan for life, but you can't outsmart it.
His dad's prescient words caromed in Dr. Zack Winston's mind as he arrived at Bethesda Metro Hospital at 7 AM on a frozen late-December morning for his twelve-hour ER shift. Zack had not outsmarted life, but he had preserved it. He survived the attack on his life, saved Bridget's, and exposed a medical cabal.
Killed his best friend and mentor, too. For cause justified.
A year later, Zack relished his routine emergency medicine practice and less reckless off-duty lifestyle. Approaching fifty, Zack Winston had finally grown up. No longer driven to seek or create drama in his life.
The sub-freezing weather and predicted snowstorm should deter the seasonal crunch of ill and worried-well people seeking pre-holiday tune-ups in the ED. Zack checked his phone, again. The weather should stay away until after his evening trip to Reagan Airport to pick up his daughters visiting from the west coast.
Zack's optimism seemed validated when the off-going emergency physician, Dr. Paula Cho, turned over a department almost empty of patients.
He should have known better.
Genre: Thriller
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