Jesus Loves the Little Children
She was saving infants. Until she started counting the ones who weren't saved.
Dr. Laura Wolfe arrived at St. Brigid's Mercy Hospital in Morrow's Ford, Vermont, with shaking hands, a buried secret, and a desperate need to prove she deserved to be a doctor. The tiny NICU felt like penance - six premature infants, a dying mill town, and a faith-affiliated hospital too poor to attract anyone better.
Then Sister Gillian Frome touched the porthole of Incubator Six for the last time before the alarm went off. And Baby Caleb stopped breathing.
It was a tragedy. Preemies died. Everyone said so.
But Laura couldn't stop counting.
Twelve months. Five wards. Thirty-three deaths.
When retired detective Mick Callahan's granddaughter is transferred to St. Brigid's - and dies within seventy-two hours of a procedure she should have survived - he begins his own investigation. What he finds pulls him into a conspiracy that reaches from a crumbling Vermont NICU to a secretive religious order, a falsified clinical trial, and a woman who has been caring for the dying for thirty years with the patience and serenity of a saint.
Or something that wears a saint's face.
As Laura and Callahan's investigations converge, Laura must also reckon with her own unconfessed sin: a dead patient in Milwaukee, an altered medical record, and the man who covered for her - who has now resurfaced. In a hospital built on mercy, everyone is hiding something. The question is what they are willing to do to keep it buried.
Perfect for readers of: Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles series, Delia Owens, Frieda McFadden, and the slow-burn institutional menace of Shutter Island.
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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