Saigon, 1972. The war is fraying at its edges, but for Claire Donovan, a combat nurse on her third tour, the danger is closer than the front. The hospital wards carry a tension she can't chart, patients vanish from their beds, and the records that should preserve truth are being rewritten before her eyes.
When she crosses paths with Raines - a former Ranger turned shadow-observer - the two are drawn into a ledger of secrets: names, dates, and disappearances the war was never meant to remember. With allies like Ngọc, the sharp-witted ward nurse, and Mr. Phan, the patient bureaucrat whose silence hides more than it reveals, Claire must decide what is worth saving - and what must be carried as a burden into the dark.
The Delta Nurse blends the grit of a war novel with the intimacy of a hospital drama and the intrigue of a slow-burn thriller. It is a story of hidden systems, erased lives, and the fragile connections that survive under surveillance.