MERCY, a novel
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CAT RICHARDSON, RN is battle-weary from continually bucking a system choked by Mercy Hospital's politics, obnoxious doctors and self-serving management. The main thing that keeps the feisty redhead going are her patients . . . and this week's assignments are among the most challenging and intriguing: Corky, the teen unwilling to divulge the nightmarish truth behind his suicide attempt, Walker, a dying bartender who can't let go until he gets some answers. Professor Dean, a victim of AIDS who helps Cat understand what true love is. Stella, the nonagenarian with a shocking past struggling to keep her sanity. And finally, Lucy Cross, the celebrated artist whose psychotic boyfriend has beaten her almost to death and is now on the loose.
Enter Detective David Padcula tracking Lucy's attacker. Sparks fly when he and Cat join forces, but before romance can distract her, Cat runs headlong into danger when the next life-and-death situation she faces is her own.
IN PRAISE OF MERCY:
"ORIGINAL...with tender characterizations and the hectic realism of its hospital setting." — The Boston Globe
"ENGROSING....An intriguing combination of nurse and detective story." — Library Journal
"A MUST READ! The 1st Echo Heron book I ever read and perhaps one of the best books I have read!" — Amazon Reviews
MEDIA INFORMATION FOR
MERCY
Fiction / Medical Novel
1992 Simon & Schuster,
1993 Ivy/Ballantine, USA and Canada
2014 REVISED AND REPUBLISHED / HERON QUILL PRESS
Book of the Month Club selection 1992
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Germany, Czech Republic
MEDIA TOUR: Cleveland, New York, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston,
St. Louis, Chicago, Albany, Washington D.C.
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